Quotes About Certainty

A simple yes or no will suffice.

I could have run after him. I could have asked politely for some clarification. But I didn't I knew what I preferred, and that was—I didn't want to know. Rather, I wanted to believe.

The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others.

If suspicion was the deadliest possible insult, then trust was always right, even if it was mistaken.

Some sorts of truth are truer than others.

Who dares to say that he alone has found the truth?

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would

Men sucked. They were the root of every problem any woman could ever have. They were the reason for bras, the need for makeup, hair stylists, shaving legs, and high heels that made the arch feel like it had a steel rod slammed up it. They were picky, arrogant, argumentative, and so damned certain of themselves <...>.

If I am a fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

The world's black and white, good and bad, no matter what you hear. The people who say it isn't have already chosen black.

Correct," I say. "Amy Chan

Emboldened by her teasing manner, Jonas squared his shoulders. From childhood had he loved Caroline. There would never be another woman for him, not ever. Though he had not planned to voice his intentions tonight, his heart was full to the bursting point. With a certainty that could not be doubted, he knew this moment had been created by Gott alone. He enfolded her hand in a

The truth was, she'd never really thought about love before—the heart-pounding, can't-live-without-you kind of love that grows in the pit of the stomach and spreads outward until you're warm all over. The kind of love you know is real because you've got not one single teeny, tiny doubt that he'd be there for you, no matter what

I've got this.

I get that the proof of my wanting isn't as … evident as yours was, but I'm quite certain you could find it if you searched hard enough.

You sure about that? he asked. Because it feels pretty fucking real when I'm buried inside you.

So matter of fact. So confident. Not cocky, just very sure of his abilities. She wondered what that utter lack of self doubt was like. She'd sure like to know.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. Albert Einstein

Billy squinted at me. Why are you letting them go? Because they're real. How do you know? The one I was holding crapped on my hand.

Never point a gun at anything you aren't sure you want dead.

The only thing certain in life is change.

That isn't going to happen," he told her. "It's going to be all right" "Fool," Kitai scoffed gently. "You do not know that." "Sometimes you don't know the most important things," Tavi said. "You believe them." "That is completely irrational." "Yes," Tavi agreed. "And true.