Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
Alan LightmanTags: certainty chance uncertainty commitment uncertainty-principle
If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.
Terry PratchettTags: certainty knowledge direction self-assurance
A reasonable probability is the only certainty.
E.W. HoweTags: certainty
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
Robert BurnsTags: wisdom certainty knowledge ignorance cockiness
...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was...
Terry PratchettTags: strength certainty confidence witches
He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.
J.K. RowlingTags: certainty decisions doubts
Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.
J.K. RowlingTags: certainty decisions doubts
Think fast on facts.
Toba BetaTags: certainty
In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.
Criss JamiTags: wisdom truth intelligence honesty certainty knowledge lies perspective god faith uncertainty teaching apologetics gospel
The devil's happy when the critics run you off.
Criss JamiTags: fear certainty happiness devil persistence confidence judgment uplifting determination happy criticism satan cowardice perseverance ridicule boldness critics scrutiny standing-your-ground
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