Quotes About Certitude

We have not meet our destination till we are there for sure.

Absolument," Spencer trilled.

Friendship affords total certitude above all and that is what distinguishes it from love. It means respect as well and total acceptance of another being.

When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.

Glauben ist das Vertrauen ins Unmögliche.

He was neither frightened nor skeptical, but felt himself drawn in with an involuntary faith--which is what faith is--

Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

Kalau kausingkirkan semua yang mustahil, apa pun yang tersisa, betapapun mustahilnya, adalah kebenaran.

Are you insane? You still not convinced that chances are better with me?

There is no danger than doubt.

To call any proposition certain, while there is any one who would deny its certainty if permitted, but who is not permitted, is to assume that we ourselves, and those who agree with us, are the judges of certainty, and judges without hearing the other side.

The beliefs which we have most warrant for, have no safeguard to rest on, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded. If the challenge is not accepted, or is accepted and the attempt fails, we are far enough from certainty still; but we have done the best that the existing state of human reason admits of; we have neglected nothing that could give the truth a chance of reaching us:

Jim Bradley shook his head. Cathy didn't want to admit it, but he had the unmistakable look of someone who was in the right.

For a long while I have lived with the notion that I was the most normal being that ever existed. This notion gave me the taste, even the passion for being unproductive: what was the use of being prized in a world inhabited by madmen, a world mired in mania and stupidity? For whom was one to bother, and to what end? It remains to be seen if I have quite freed myself from this certitude, salvation in the absolute, ruin in the immediate.

What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence? ...The term was faith .

Doubt is a one hundred percent trust, in a belief you don't prefer. You are never really actually in doubt. You are always completely trusting in something.

One way of feeling infallible is not to keep a diary

Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.

Having faith is believing in something you just know ain't true.

I'll not go where there is any of that sort of thing going on, again. It's the sure way, and the only sure way;

Y él lo había creído, porque entonces era verdad, era verdad hasta que se había ido acercando la hora de la verdad

With the certitude of a true believer, Vellya Paapen had assured the twins that there was no such thing in the world as a black cat. He said that there were only black cat chaped holes in the universe.

I thought, This is how it feels inside the right decision.

Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.