Quotes About Certainty

Travel if you wish, taste strange dishes, gather experience in dangerous activities, but see that your soul remains your own. Do not become a stranger to yourself, for you are lost from that day on; you will have no peace if there is not, somewhere within you, a corner of certainty, calm waters where you can take refuge in sleep.

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

Der unnatürliche Zustand, daß der Mensch nicht an eine von ihm selber erkannte Wahrheit glaubt, dauert an und wirkt sich aus. Die Stadt der Wahrheit kann nicht auf dem Sumpfboden des Skeptizismus erbaut werden.

Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.

El legendario Emperador Amarillo nombró las cosas y las escribió del modo correcto. Una buena administración necesita diferenciar lo que es de lo que no es. El día que consigamos saber cuántos somos, podremos disfrutar de esa felicidad que sólo trae la certidumbre.

There is nothing that can, in the dark become true

Sensazione meravigliosa. Di quando il destino finalmente si schiude, e diventa sentiero distinto, e ormai inequivocabile, e direzione certa. Il tempo interminabile dell'avvicinamento. Quell'accostarsi. Si vorrebbe non finisse mai. Il gesto di consegnarsi al destino. Quella è un'emozione: Senza più dilemmi, senza più menzogne. Sapere dove. E raggiungerlo. Qualunque sia, il destino.

Ora sapete come è l'aspettativa: immaginosa, credula, sicura.

Always wrong but never in doubt.

You ever hear that expression 'If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck'?

If I didn't believe, there would be nothing left.

I just knew. There was no movie ending. There was only an ending.

Funny how you can know something and yet not believe it's possible.

Maybe the crazy people are the only ones who know the truth.

Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.

That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain.

But always think the last opinion right.

You could never be cruel. It's simply not in your nature." She smiled wryly at his arrogant assurance. "You sound very certain for a vampire who has only known me a few months." He arched a raven brow. "It's because I'm a vampire that I know. I can read your soul, Abby, and it is as pure and beautiful as any I have ever seen.

His eyes. Unclouded by cynicism, questioning but with a certainty that there were answers, warmly innocent in some strange way. A child's eyes, she thought. Even more irresistible when set in a man's face.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief.

Insecurity is a waste of time.