Quotes About Certainty

There is no greater validation than of god almighty himself.

Nothing, however, is certain except uncertainty and there is always interference in the lines of flight.

Cuando no tienes claro en lo que crees, todo deriva en una controversia. Todo es discutible. Por el contrario, cuando tienes las ideas claras, las decisiones son fáciles.

When you don't know what you believe, everything becomes an argument. Everything is debatable. But when you stand for something, decisions are obvious.

When you eliminate the impossible, all that remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Uma pessoa nunca sabe se o que lhe dizem é verdade, nunca há a certeza de nada que não venha de nós mesmos.

These are the purposes that emerge from a learning stance, from working through the Three Conversations and shifting your internal orientation from certainty to curiosity, from debate to exploration, from simplicity to complexity, from "either/or" to "and.

Jesus comes to you in the midst of the struggle, when the battle is almost unbearable and the circumstances look impossible. With the voice of absolute certainty and strength, He speaks to you

By the way, a gendarme assured me this is not a prison.

By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.

Because only the truest things always are true because they can't be true

gone are those hugest hours of dark and cold when blood and flesh to inexistence bow (all that was doubtful's certain,timid's bold; old's youthful and reluctant's eager now)

In the end It will not matter That I was a woman. I am sure of it. The body is a source. Nothing more. There is a time for it. There is a certainty About the way it seeks its own dissolution.

not once did I question either my sanity or my wakefulness.

The habit of questioning everything can be dangerous, for sooner or later it will surely bring a man into head-on collision with the unquestionable, and he will not be able in conscience to draw aside.

The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took it for granted that we shouldn't. Only, I wonder—the thing one's so certain of in advance: can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly?

Only, I wonder - the thing one's so certain of in advance; can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly?

I must be tolerably sure, before I venture publicly to congratulate men upon a blessing, that they have really received one.

it were better to get simplicity, if certainty is not to be had

Well, we seem to have it.

Knowing it--knowing it's true is one thing, but believing what you know... well, there's the tough part.

A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very little possibility of further progress. Such a person is unlikely to walk away from a discussion with anything more than a reaffirmation of how right he or she has been all along.

Control and certainty are myths.

The need to be right -- the sign of a vulgar mind.