Quotes About Certainty

It's always best to assume that everyone either knows the truth or will know the truth, because either they do or they will.

With trust, everything is possible.

I did not say it was true, only that I believe it.

If we have the data, let's look at the data. If all we have are opinions, let's just go with mine.

Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.

As long as you doubt your sanity, you can't be insane.

There is not a thing in the world that won't become true one day, just as a stopped clock always has a moment when it is accurate.

But in general, he avoided discussions about religion. There was no way to win them anyway, he thought, why bother. Whichever side you fell on, you had to conclude with the statement « I believe... » rather than « I know. ».

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The funny thing about memory is that it can't be fully trusted, and yet, in the end, it's the only truth we have.

De verdad le quedan dudas todavía? —le pregunté—. ¿A pesar de tener noventa años? —Hay ciertas cosas de las que nunca podemos estar seguros —aseveró—, aunque vivamos cien años. Eso demuestra que somos humanos.

En solitud, però no solitaris, reconduïm la vida amb la certesa que cap esforç no cau en terra eixorca. Dia vindrà que algú beurà a mans plenes l'aigua de llum que brolli de les pedres d'aquest temps nou que ara esculpim nosaltres.

But we couldn't see to form a chain of doubt between each other's eyes. And her voice had a vibrant certainty that made believing her feel liberating and obvious.

In fact, prayer and certainty are the same thing; both mean the power to truly see into the future, the true future, not the image of the eternal return of the past: no one prays for the sun to come up tomorrow.

In fact, prayer and certainty are the same thing; both mean the power to truly see into the future, the true future, not the image of the eternal return of the past: no one prays for the sun to come up tomorrow. Through belief, we see the future and already inhabit it.

Man sollte nie auf Wunder hoffen, es sei denn, man kann sich darauf verlassen, dass sie wirklich eintreffen.

Gdje nam je dokaz, da naše ''ja'' traje, da smo ''mi'' još uvijek trajno i neprekidno ''mi'', gdje nam je zapravo mjera?

What do I believe? I believe that two and two make four, Sganarelle, and that four and four are eight.

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.

Certainty fell away from me as though a loved person dropped my hand in indifference.

The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.

The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.

Yet it is unassailably true that so long as we lack omniscience and do not know all of the future, all our generalizations are fallible or only probable. And the history of human error shows that a general consensus, or widespread and unquestioned feeling of certainty, does not preclude the possibility that the future may show us to be in error.

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.