Quotes About Certainty

When I take a stand, everyone else knows where they stand.

You may know a thing is so, but you can't help hoping other people don't quite think it is

The only thing you can be sure of in this world is the multiplication table.

The only thing she really enjoyed was a funeral. You knew where you were with a corpse. Nothing more could happen to it. But while there was life there was fear.

Well, I don't know, said the Story Girl thoughtfully. I think there are two kinds of true thing - true things that are , and true things that are not , but might be.

as she held out her hand, their eyes met and all doubt was swept away in a glad certainty. They belonged to each other; and, no matter what life might hold for them, it could never alter that. Their happiness was in each other's keeping and both were unafraid.

A woman cannot ever be sure of not being married till she is buried, Mrs. Doctor, dear, and meanwhile I will make a batch of cherry pies.

You've all been so sure that life is good that I've never been able to disbelieve it. Never will be able to.

When you know things you have to go by facts. But when you just dream things there's nothing to hold you down.

I think there are two kinds of TRUE THINGS-- true things that ARE, and true things that ARE NOT, but MIGHT be.

Marilla somut gerçeÄŸin güvenli yolu dururken, soyutluÄŸun ÅŸüpheli patikalar?na girmeyecekti.

I want to know... not just believe... that the world is round.

Olmad???n? tabii ki biliyordum ama olduÄŸunu düÅŸünmekten vazgeçecek deÄŸildim.

Åžüpheci olmak insan?n güvende olmas?n? saÄŸlard?.

In order to compete with sin's appeal, holy desire, the longing to live a Christlike life that displays the relational beauty of Christ to others, must be rooted in faith. And that faith exists only when it is lodged in the certainty that soon it will give way to an incomparable experience of joy that will forever destroy the appeal of sin.

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. -H. Poincare

You may have to go with English," Bailey says. "Einstein said, So far as the theories of mathematics are about reality, they are not certain; so far as they are certain, they are not about reality." Bailey tilts her head. "Still waiting on the English there, Professor," she says. "It basically means, we don't know shit about anything," he says.

Einstein said, So far as the theories of mathematics are about reality, they are not certain; so far as they are certain, they are not about reality." Bailey tilts her head. "Still waiting on the English there, Professor," she says. "It basically means, we don't know shit about anything," he says.

Maybe that's the way everything changes. Just when you finally believe that anything is stable, and will stay the same.

things hoped for, the assurance of things unseen." "We must have faith." Kaaren closed the book in her lap. "Ja, we must," Ingeborg acknowledged. But

I'd learned a long time ago that you can't prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it's the devil to prove you didn't do something.

Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.

If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.

I think we can do it. But you don't know for sure, he said. No. Geez, Anita. Don't get rattled on me. We can do this. But you aren't sure. I'm not sure we'll survive the plane ride home, but I'm still getting on the plane. Was that supposed to be comforting? he asked. Yeah. It wasn't, he said. Sorry, but this is as good as it gets. You want certainty, be an accountant. I'm not good at math. Me either.