Quotes About Certainty

If you wish to put off all worry, assume that what you fear may happen is certainly going to happen.

An urgent wish is no guarantor of a sound solution.

Melancholy isn't always a disorder that needs to be cured. It can be a species of intelligent grief which arises when we come face-to-face with the certainty that disappointment is written into the script from the start.

Lovers cannot remain philosophers for long, they should give way to the religious impulse, which is to believe and have faith, as opposed to the philosophic impulse, which is to doubt & inquire. They should prefer the risk of being wrong and in love to being in doubt and without love.

The truth, in so far as a human being is able to attain such a thing, lies in a statement which it seems impossible to disprove. It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.

Melancholy isn't always a disorder that needs to be cured. It can be a species of intelligent grief which arises when we come face-to-face with the certainty that disappointment is written into the script from the start.

It may come very fast, this certainty that another human being is a soulmate. We needn't have spoken with them; we may not even know their name. Objective knowledge doesn't come into it. What matters instead is intuition: a spontaneous feeling that seems all the more

It may come very fast, this certainty that another human being is a soul mate. We needn't have spoken with them; we may not even know their name. Objective knowledge doesn't come into it. What matters instead is intuition, a spontaneous feeling that seems all the more accurate and worthy of respect because it bypasses the normal processes of reason.

In the end, you can always convince yourself that a version of the truth is the truth itself.

At least I know today that I will not have to wait that long.

If you know something is true, you don't need to convince anyone of it. If you are trying to convince anyone, it is probably yourself.

Making believe you know will get you farther than making believe you don't know.

Crazy thing is, it's all real. The Jedi, the Force—it's true. All true.

Formal profile or not, of one thing he was now certain: They had badly underestimated what had seemed to be a Resistance pilot on the verge of physical and emotional collapse.

I learned at that time, for an absolute certainty, that I did not believe in an intervening God, since I did not spend one second praying or trying to make a deal with God.

About some things—about many things!—we believe that people should have not open minds but settled convictions. We cannot make progress intellectually or socially until some issues are no longer up for grabs.

positivists were people without firm moral commitments and therefore without any means of resisting the dogmatic certainties of communism and fascism.

n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là" ("I have no need for that assumption

Thus, to explain what we see in the world and in our mental deductions, we must believe in what we cannot prove.

I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary.

Such a small thing to cast such a long & uneasy shadow over the future. For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain: it just won't be the same.

Are you like, a crazy person? I'm quite sure they will say so.

Let me show you firmness of my belief.

The humble man reached in his pocket for his sacred book, and began to read. It was this world alone that was certain.