Quotes About Certainty

A chance of hope is no pacifier against a sure tragedy.

Brunetti didn't like knowing that she was right.

but all that you will have now, and for the rest of your lives, is loss and pain and the terrible sense that you somehow failed this boy. And no matter how deep your knowledge that you were not responsible for it, your certainty that you were will always be deeper and more absolute.

Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way.

Well, hey, you don't have anything to worry about then, do you?

just as we know there is a wind by the effect it produces on waves and trees and smoke, so we can know that the Holy Spirit is in a person by the effects He produces in the person's conduct. It is foolish to think that we have the Spirit if we do not also walk in the Spirit (Galatians 5:25). We can depend on it as an absolute certainty that where there is no holy living, there is no Holy Spirit. The seal that the Spirit stamps on Christ's people is sanctification

I'm an apple expert. Apples are the only exam I could ever hope to pass.

Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.

2. Propositional knowledge.

Knowledge by acquaintance gives us direct access to reality as it is in itself, and we actually know this to be the case in our daily lives.

Tõestuse puudumine ei ole puudumise tõestus.

May the living stars preserve us from those so certain of their own virtue.

Doubt about your wisdom can be the clearest sign of wisdom

Beware of people who are certain they are right, Admiral. That certainty allows them to justify almost any act in pursuit of their

Geary looked at Dr. Nasr, running the physician's words through his mind. "We need to be sure we're asking the right question in order to get the right answer? Is that what you're saying?" "Yes. If you only think you know the question, the answers you come up with will not be adequate or correct.

You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

And if it doesn't go like that? – Then all your problems will be over and you won't have a thing to worry.

sure you know what you're doing?

Men speak in absolutes, women in uncertainties, and this often strikes us as a weakness in women, but it's knowledge: a knowledge that we cannot know, not ever.

I think I know you absolutely.

There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.

All those formal systems, in mathematics and physics and the philosophy of science, which claim to give foundations for certain truth are surely mistaken. I am tempted to say that we do not look for truth, but for knowledge. But I dislike this form of words, for two reasons. First of all, we do look for truth, however we define it, it is what we find that is knowledge. And second, what we fail to find is not truth, but certainty; the nature of truth is exactly the knowledge that we do find.

Si bien es cierto que el conocimiento no son los datos que se manejan sino más bien la certeza vivencial, también es verdad que esta última puede no ser compartida. La razón de ello no radica en el hecho de que la certeza sea relativista, sino solamente en la existencia de diferentes certezas. Todos llegamos al mismo conocimiento interno porque éste no es relativo en cuanto a su verdad, pero existen diferentes gradientes y ritmos para alcanzarlo

It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.