Best 310 quotes in «certainty quotes» category

And it was like I knew, and that certainty planted itself in my belly like a warm secret.

And I will wait for Jarod to work for me. For free, cause if it's paid, it's work and not love, unless, of course he loves to work, in which case he’ll surely love working for me, because I love people who love to do that to love to do that.

Anyone claiming certainty about life, truth, creation, or purpose of the Universe, is either ignorant or unfit to comprehend the implications of the presented dilemmas.

Anyone who takes a decided line in certain matters, is sure to lead all the rest.

A prophet is always underestimated, and part of what makes one a prophet is that he doesn't really mind it.

A sensible man may fear certain possibilities, but don’t let fear turn possibility into certainty.

Assert your certainty, doubt flies out and wealth flies in.

A world full of "certainties" All the plans, all the vanities. Where black covers the white Suited in "confidence"- the constant fight. A million roads I dream to take One destination, knowing not I turn where. A green veil covers for two years, some two decades. But the "plan" awaits, new roads to make. I pant, I struggle, I do my best While they say, "You are, dear, but so inadequate".

As the old saying goes: With great power comes the total fuckin' certainty that you're gonna turn into a cunt.

Because you're always learning, the chief lesson remains: you still know nothing.

Be certain independent of facts, when you doubt yourself, you cannot be, you cannot do and you cannot have.

Beauty is an advantage, smile is guarantee.

Be certain there are no coincidences

...but the loss of a memory, like the omission of a phrase during reading, rather than making for uncertainty, can lead to a premature certainty.

Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

But at that moment she had known, with a certainty she would never feel about anything else in her life, that it was right, that she wanted this man in her life. Something inside her said, He understands. What it's like to be different.

But the people who struggle against what we call totalitarian regimes cannot function with queries and doubts. They, too, need certainties and simple truths to make the multitudes understand, to provoke collective tears.

But was it worth anything? That's the hopelessness of it. The openness of it. The part of it I can never understand. I am afraid of ambiguity and certainity and permanence and impermanence. And so is everybody else.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessary condition for knowledge.

Certainty was to curiosity what the sun was to the wings of Icarus. Where one shone forcefully, the other couldn't survive. With certainty came arrogance; with arrogance, blindness; with blindness, darkness; and with darkness, more certainty.

Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.

Deeply convinced of the reality of the divine will, he (Lincoln) had no patience at all with any who were perfectly sure they knew the details of the divine will.

Courage is a certainty.

Customers loves certainty, make sure you give it to them.

Curiosity is a worthwhile virtue than certainty. While the former leads to grow, the latter muzzles your growth and results in stagnation...

Doubter wants proof which contributes nothing to her faith.

Do not be afraid of love or the course it will take. There is no certainty in life. Choose love first and choose love last and it will give you more than you ever give it.

For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely certain, that nothing will ever happen to me. Others die, I go on.

Every great dream, meet an opposing views. The certainty within our spirit made the dream reality.

Fairy tales end happily ever after because children crave certainly and resolution; they need to know how things turn out. But if my experiences in the past three months have shown me anything, it's that I am comfortable living with more questions than answers. My own story will always be a work in progress.

Fanaticism can often be a normalized phenomenon, and the unwritten recipe suggests that it starts and ends with absolute certainty. If you are always certain about everything, you might just live in an echo chamber, or there might be a lack of ideological diversity among your sources and friends. Only, there is no size limit to this echo chamber as long as there is consensus: and the bigger the chamber the more solidified the fanaticism, and the more solidified the fanaticism the more the outlier will be seen the liar and the fanatic.

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error,” Leto explained. “To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Find everything you are certain about. With everything else, be certain that you are uncertain.

Having friends was weird . . . but in a good way.

Have you ever loved something so much that you never had to even think about whether you did or not? That's how I love him.

From whomsoever one hears anything, it is wisdom to understand the true import of it.

I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.

He did not want to be young again -- that time had had particular and transcendent horrors -- but the thought of being any older filled him with panic. He could not imagine finding tranquility of soul in old age; if he could only be allowed to mark time for a while all might yet be well, one might suddenly achieve equilibrium, certainty, serenity. There would still be possibilities. Hopes.

He was afraid of certainty.

Hope is certainty of the desired want.

He who asserts belief with absolute certainty knows nothing of faith and makes himself into a fool. He who is wise, upon realizing they have done this, recants and searches themselves for further enlightenment.

How do you ever hold on to anybody?

Humans may crave absolute certainty; they may aspire to it; they may pretend, as partisans of certain religions do, to have attained it. But the history of science — by far the most successful claim to knowledge accessible to humans — teaches that the most we can hope for is successive improvement in our understanding, learning from our mistakes, an asymptotic approach to the Universe, but with the proviso that absolute certainty will always elude us.

I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.

I am not certain whether I ever believed in the City of the Immortals; I think the task of finding it was enough for me.

I could see it all. The hand on the shoulder, then the hug. The mouths that find each other through the tears, the moment when guilt and the certainty that things must go no further gives way to lust and the certainty that they cannot stop.

If imagination is what enables us to conceive of and enjoy stories other than our own, and if empathy is the act of taking other people’s stories seriously, certainty deadens or destroys both qualities. When we are caught up in our own convictions, other people’s stories—which is to say, other people—cease to matter to us.

If anyone doesn't agree with you, the truth is on your side.

I don’t know whether there are numbers. And you?

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics.