Quotes About Certitude

Anger was beautiful, because its core was the absence of all doubt. When anger wrapped you up in yourself and you knew that you were right and righteous—that the very universe was in agreement with you—at that moment you were a god, and anyone who crossed you or disagreed with you was worse than wrong, they were heretics, apostates, twisted in the very womb.

Nemcsak az volt tévedés, amiben hittünk valaha, de az is, amiben valaha hinni fogunk.

If you would argue until the end of life, the infallible creature must alone be right.

You know, when you're right, that's all you get to be.

You know, when you're right,that's all you get to be.

Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact.

I know I'm right, and I know you're wrong.

And that's as sure as we ever are of anything. We believe it enough to act as though it's true. When we'r'e that sure, we call it knowledge. Facts. We bet our lives on it.

And that's as sure as we ever are of anything. We believe it enough to act as though it's true. When we're that sure, we call it knowledge. Facts. We bet our lives on it.

And that's as sure as we ever are of anything. We believe it enough to act as though it's true. When we're that sure, we call it knowledge. Facts. We bet our lives on it." "I guess that's what you're doing. Betting your life on her being what you think she is.

I know it as much as anyone knows anything. Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.

We're just not convinced that's the right path. It's not a path, it's a fact.

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

Well, I think the questioner wants the truth. The doubter wants to be told there aint no such thing.

Faith in the widest sense of the word, is assent to the truth, or the persuasion of the mind that a thing is true.

The absence of consensus does not mean an absence of truth

And here we come to the heart of Phil's 2-3-74 experiences. Certitude had he none. Oh yes, one can find numerous passages-in interviews, the novels, and the Exegesis-in which Phil advances a theory with the sound of certitude. But always (and usually quite soon thereafter) he reconsidered and recanted. Indeterminacy is the central characteristic of 2-3-74.

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.

You might not know when it's wrong, but you sure know when it's right.

I beg your pardon; one knows exactly what to think.

When it's right, it's right.

Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.

in our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.' – David Hume, Scottish philosopher

we still have a long way to go in terms of creating a rock-solid science that could match the certainty of, say, physics and biology. In the meantime, we all need a personal theory of what makes people tick.