Quotes About Certainty

Es lo malo de dejar que la gente hable y se explique y por eso trata de impedirse tantas veces, para conservar las certezas y no dar cabida a las dudas, es decir, a la mentira. O es decir, a la verdad.

Quelles que puissent être les difficultés, elle était certaine à présent d'avoir fait le bon choix en suivant ce que lui dictait son cœur.

Las personas interesantes se distinguen por las preguntas que hacen y las dudas que albergan, mientras que cualquier necio puede estar seguro de todo y ofrecer respuestas que nadie le pide.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Knowing that there will be a way out, an end to the problem, is itself reassuring.

this thing was going to work—if Janet had

Trust me, Wainwright, ninety-nine times out of a hundred you can bet the bank that I'm serious." "What about the one time when you're not?" "I'm asleep.

The very fact that you can even wonder if you're going crazy means you very likely aren't crazy. Real nuts don't question their own nuttiness. They think they're the only normal ones. That's why they're nuts.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt in God.

Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

universul nostru era dominat de o idee, ?i poate numai de una, dar ea ne f?cea s? ne sim?im foarte siguri pe noi. For?a acestei idei venea în totalitate din simplitatea ei. ?i anume c? lucrurile sunt ceea ce sunt.

Nothing in the world is as certain as death.

The only thing I'm sure of is that one can't be a complete unbeliever. That would be to admit to nothingness. Absolute zero doesn't exist.

The mere idea that you are not in a place for the rest of your life gives you an awfully unstable feeling. That's why trial marriages would never work. You've got to feel you're in a thing irrevocably and forever in order to buckle down and really put your whole mind into making it a success.

The Tudors hated to be wrong, and therefore never were.

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

You never know how the loss will come -- whether he will lose you or you him, but it is a certainty that there will be a shattering involuntary separation. Death is the abandonment caused not by betrayal but by fidelity.

She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Just because something is unbelievable does not mean you shouldn't believe it. Put another way, some things are worth believing in whether they're true or not.

What do we know for sure? That's the real question. That's what the cogito is. That's what solipsism is. This isn't theory. This isn't belief or faith. This is the basic fact of existence. It's all about figuring out exactly what we know for certain as opposed to everything else. It's truly amazing that something so glaringly obvious and irrefutable is so universally ignored by science and philosophy and religion.