Quotes About Certainty

It's a kind of arrogance to be so certain you're past redemption.

Ellis Peters

No importa qué posibilidades tenga, un hombre no pone su última esperanza en algo y luego espera que ese algo fracase.

Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.

Believing where we cannot prove.

Cleave never to the sunnier side of doubt.

The certainty of mathematics depends on its complete abstract generality.

And each, believing he was utterly and finally right, damned with equally positive conviction the rest of the world.

This isn't fiction, the man says. This is the Post Office.

Believe me. Everything is meant.

I personally shall be giving her the benefits of the doubt, Elisabeth said. Now you're ready, Daniel said. Ready for what? Elisabeth said. Ready to bagatelle it as it is, Daniel said.

All's change, but permanence as well"... and continued:   "Truth inside, and outside, truth also; and between each, falsehood that is change, as truth is permanence."   "Truth successively takes shape, one grade above its last presentment...

For what is a flower but lifes expressed passion for itself. Sudden and brief, but certain and eternal at the same time

Polly was always shocked to learn how complacent she was, when she was certain of her good intentions.

There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.

Fairness demanded that grief should find succor, that wounds should heal, insult and confusion find recompense and certainty, that every living person God had made should not, willy-nilly, be forever unmade.

I don't believe something.

We are the ones there are, and will always be.

Our entire culture's infrastructure encourages and rewards a static, unchanging nature. You choose one degree, one career, one house, one spouse... You earn prestige by appearing to have it all figured out. The American Dream isn't having it all, it's knowing it all.

Yet somehow Jesus' actions were not matching John's expectations. And that distance between what John thought Jesus would do and what Jesus actually did was straining John's certainty of who Jesus was.

Some things just have to be believed to be seen." —PHILIP YANCEY

It is dangerous to be right on matters in which the established authorities are wrong.

Ümit asla boÅŸuna deÄŸildir, ama sonucun ne olaca??na dair garantiyi yaln?zca bir yalanc? verebilir.

Knowledge breeds confidence.