Quotes About Certitude

That's factually crazy...

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

knew where they were and was sure of it even before he

We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from anything which has its roots in us. The most poignant sense of insecurity comes from standing alone; we are not alone when we imitate.

Transformer ses hypothèses en certitudes : quelle prétention ! Lâcher toutes les idées pour une : le fanatisme n'a pas d'autre origine !

În ziua aceea, ea dobândi dou? certitudini definitive: el o enerva la culme ÅŸi, dac? va putea, nu-l va p?r?si niciodat?.

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

Sometimes we don't question things. Sometimes we just accept them. That's faith, Piper, and that's what's required here.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

I am a daylight atheist.

I'm not a big believer in second-guessing decisions.

Broaden the tax base, close loopholes and flatten the tax rates - all of which would bring more revenue stability and certitude to projections as well as make filing a comparable breeze.

Why was everyone suddenly challenging something that I'd held as absolute truth my entire life?

Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

How fortunate the man who never knew doubt.

I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen, would not.

I ought to have guessed that a person like her--a person who you could tell had a deep inner certitude of self which comes from being all of one piece, of not being shreds and patches and old cogwheels held together with pieces of rusty barbed wire and spit and bits of string, like most of us--I ought to have guessed that that kind of person would not be surprised into answering a question she didn't want to answer.

I ought to have guessed that a person like her—a person who you could tell had a deep inner certitude of self which comes from being all of one piece, of not being shreds and patches and old cogwheels held together with pieces of rusty barbed wire and spit and bits of string, like most of us—I ought to have guessed that that kind of a person would not be surprised into answering a question she didn't want to answer. Even

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.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. —RUDYARD KIPLING (1865–1936)

Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?

But 'the physical level of rigor' is higher on certainty than the logical one, since reproducible experiments are more reliable than anybody's, be it Hilbert's, Einstein's or Gödel's intuition.

I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius.

Introducing uncertainty sometimes requires nothing more than letting go of the illusion of certitude. In this shift of perception, we recognize the inherent mystery of our partner. I point out to Adele that if we are to maintain desire with one person over time we must be able to bring a sense of unknown into a familiar space. In the words of Proust, "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.