Quotes About Certainty

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

In fact, it wasn't evidence at all, but I didn't want to be a defeatist.

She looked at me with clear eyes that were free of doubt or equivocation. "Of course. I knew that we would.

Rakkim would have loved to believed that… another reason he wasn't convinced.

People want to believe.

For, dear me, why abandon a belief, Merely because it ceases to be true, Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt, It will turn true again, for so it goes.

They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.

Just because yu can't prove it doesn't mean it isn't true

The need for certainty is the greatest disease the mind faces.

The uniform of the gladdest malt is its sureness.

Live confidently in the assurance that the One who has directed your steps to this moment of time is worthy of your complete trust for the days ahead.

I've got more faith in my shotgun than any man, that's for sure.

In fact, with experience and maturity we learn to worry less about others' intent and more about the effect others' actions are having on us. No longer are we in the game of rooting out unhealthy motives. And here's the good news. When we reflect on alternative motives, not only do we soften our emotions, but equally important, we relax our absolute certainty long enough to allow for dialogue— the only reliable way of discovering others' genuine motives.

We're so uncomfortable with the immediate conflict that we accept the certainty of bad results to avoid the possibility of uncomfortable conversation

You never really know. Lately Kevin has been bothering himself with the idea that nothing is certain, nothing can be proven. Not one thing, not in all the world. The sun will rise tomorrow. Prove it. The sun rose this morning. Prove it. The sun is in the sky. Prove it. There's a sun at all. Prove it. The world is like a box of Kleenex, every doubt pulling another along behind it. You can always find a new reason to distrust the facts.

While death isn't a sure thing anymore, taxes still are.

I'm also much less certain than Audrey and Ben were in their final arguments, but that's because I'm searching for the truth whereas they're just trying to win a case.

I knew that whatever I chose would be the wrong thing. I knew that until I truly believed that whatever I did was the exact right thing, I'd keep doing the wrong thing.

She said there was comfort to be found in the permanence of mathematical truths, in the lack of arbitrariness and the absence of ambiguity. In knowing that the answer may be elusive, but they could be found. They were there, waiting, chalk scribbles away

I rescued him from the certainty of a turmoil and put him in a turmoil of uncertainty.

Rekla je da je istina u nepromjenjivosti matemati?kih istina, nedostatku proizvoljnosti i odsustvu dvosmislenost. U saznanju da odgovori mogu biti neuhvatljivi, ali ih je mogu?e prona?i. Bili su tamo, ?ekaju?i da budu ispisani na tabli. Nimalo nalik životu, drugim rije?ima, kazao je.

That night, I waited until Baba fell asleep, and then folded a blanket. I used it as a prayer rug. Bowing my head to the ground, I recited half-forgotten verses from the Koran-verses the mullah had made us commit to memory in Kabul-and asked for kindness from a god I wasn't sure existed. I envied the mullah now, envied his faith and certainty.

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lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty