Quotes About Certainty

If this moment was a sentence, I'd be the period.

Some people don't believe that you can meet a person and know that's the person for you for the rest of your life. I'm not going to try to argue with them on that. I know what I know.

Some people don't believe you can meet and know that's the person for you for the rest of your life. I'm not going to try to argue with them on that. I know what I know.

It isn't very logical to live my life on goundless supposition. I have to assume the truth of the moment is the truth of the future. - Leah

We speak of it like it is always possible, but we never truly expect it.

Dos y dos son cuatro, pero no a veces, ¡Sino siempre!

La preeminencia de la Nueva España sobre la vieja España, en el sector clave de la riqueza en metales preciosos, en el siglo XVIII, asociada a la certidumbre carismática fundada sobre una nueva epifanía (la "encarnación" de la Virgen María en el Tepeyac), hicieron posible que el mexicano escapara de la mancha original de ser un "cristiano hecho a punta de lanza" y un "bárbaro" a los ojos del europeo "civilizado".

The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental.

The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

Only facts will help you escape -- not hopes, fears or wishes.

Surely, even in a world apparently turned enthusiastically relativistic in nearly all matters of belief and conviction, at least this single principle of physiological, if not moral, certainty still held true. There were men and there were women, and there were straights and there were gays. And that was that.

Death is the only reality, for it is the only certainty, inevitable to all things.

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

This is not a promise, this is not threat, it's just the way it's gonna be!!!

Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the ameteur for three, or the cry of the critc for five. (from Whistler vs. Ruskin, 1878)

I believe nothing. Nothing whatever.

The man said somehow he was sure he was—dead—the minute he saw him. He doesn't know how. Just some special kind of stillness.

If something is not a "hell, YEAH!", then it's a "no!

At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.

It is so.When YOU think so

Okay," he said, informing the universe he was ready for decisive action.

I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks that he has found the truth.

There is no such thing as 'my truth' or 'your truth'," he said. "There is only one truth. You'll live to find that out.

That's all that faith is, the knowledge that the greater thing is with you. That's all the faith you need. The knowledge that you are not the greater thing.