Quotes About Certainty

In his mature works from Ideas I, notably the Cartesian Meditations (1931), Husserl presented his approach as a radicalization of Descartes' project that sought to return knowledge to a foundation in the certainty of subjective experience (cogito ergo sum).

When others inspire us, they tend to do so through the clear expression of these sketchy, adumbrated thoughts we ourselves have known but never had the perspicacity for formulate with certainty.

It's a rule in life that the more certain we appear about something, the less we know about it. It has a name – the Dunning–Kruger effect – and it is at work every time someone tells you with absolute certainty how things are in the world. The sign of the true expert is his modest awareness of how much more there is to know; how complex and nuanced the subject at hand insists on remaining.

Have you ever felt love? Did you need scientific proof of this? How would you have definitively and scientifically proved your love existed? If you could not prove it, would that mean your love didn't exist? What would you trust: your own feelings, or science?

In order to determine whether we can know anything with certainty, we first have to doubt everything we know

La existencia de Dios debe tenerse en mi espíritu por tan cierta como las verdades de las matemáticas que no contemplan otra cosa que números y figuras.

Certainty comes as you move away from facts.

The Latin root of decide means "to cut off all possibility." So a person who actually made a true decision to accomplish something would have no alternative but to do what they decided.

When I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no doubt. And I didn't. When I woke in the dark under that tree on the road to Leoch, with you sitting on my chest, cursing me for bleeding to death, I said to myself 'Jamie Fraser, for all ye canna see what she looks like, and for all she weights as much as a good draft horse, this is the woman.

I don't need to see the trail to know you're at the end of it. My grandfather's compass may not work, but mine is still true.

possible. He has this attitude that nothing bad can happen to him, that he is protected in some way. I never have that feeling. Instead, I am certain my death is waiting for me around the next bend in the road.

You don't know nothing, that's what I figured out. You don't know nothing, but you act like god anyway.

You should never feel bad over an outcome whose conclusion was foretold.

If there's a one percent chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al-Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response.

Only when I forgo visible proof, do I believe in God.

Zato što velika ljubav mora da se dokazuje. Mala ne mora. (...) Velikoj ljubavi nijedan dokaz nije dovoljan. Kao ni velikoj veri. One se neprestano mu?e sa sumnjom.

Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority.

Man must believe in something, even if he believes there is nothing.

A:I have no need to call it anything. I simply know that I am here; that all is good and well. I have what I need. I know what I know, and I will do what I am told. But you may call it any word which is good. That will be acceptable to me. J:Okay.

Facts are lonely things

21 Y respondiendo Jesús, les dijo: En verdad les digo, que si tienen fe, y no andan vacilando, no solamente harán esto de la higuera, sino que aun cuando digan a este monte: Arráncate, y arrójate al mar, así lo hará. 22 Y todo cuanto pidan en la oración, como tengan fe, lo alcanzarán. 23

Pues ciertamente les aseguro que si tuvieran fe, tan grande como un granito de mostaza podrán decir a ese monte: Trasládate de aquí a allá, y se trasladará, y nada les será imposible.

After a long period of reflection, he decided that he was in fact right yet again.

Every now and then I meet someone certain of personal greatness. I want to pat this person on the shoulder and mutter comforting words: "Things will get better! You won't always feel so depressed! Cheer up!