Quotes About Certainty

What really matters is what you believe.

I've gone from mistrusting my own instincts to knowing true confidence.

That is the thing about infinity: it takes things that are otherwise very unlikely and makes them all inevitable.

God is the one thing, the only thing, I know is true.

God would be there with it, in every moment, sure as the North Star.

Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.

How do we know that even the realest of realities wouldn't be subjective, in the final analysis? Nobody can prove his existence, can he?

Clarke's first law: "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Nobody knows nothing for sure. If they say they do, they're either a preacher or selling something. Deal

I don't know it for sure. Nobody knows nothing for sure. If they say they do, they're either a preacher or selling something.

Mais, c'est évident !".

There's something beautifully soothing about a fact — even (or perhaps especially) if we're not sure what it means.

Eventually, you will come to know with all your brain cells that your authentic self is the one thing you can trust the most.

open possibility (within the plane) to increased probability (in the plateau) to specific actuality (at the peak). As

declarations of high confidence mainly tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his mind, not necessarily that the story is true.

When I spend a lot of time reading, discussing, or thinking about an area, I'll often really appreciate why a strong viewpoint is true and come to very firm conclusions. But if I am later exposed to a strong opposing view, I frequently find this countervailing view persuasive as well.

In my opinion, with political and religious views, how can you 110 percent, full-hearted say without a shadow of a doubt say that this is how I feel, and this is where I want to be in my life, if you haven't looked at it any other way than just one angle?

When you're young, you say it how it is, and even your views are, like, 'This is totally the truth', 'cos you don't know any difference, so there's a real confidence in your way of thinking.

If there's one crime for which there has to be a certainty of punishment, it is gun violence.

One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image.

Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't.

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

We have to provide more visibility, more certainty to the investors and reduce the cost of failure.

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.