Certainty Quotes
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I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty.
— Anthony Eden
The mystery of death is a certainty, but mystery of love is everlasting.
— Debasish Mridha
At the atomic level, matter does not even exist with certainty; it only exists as a tendency to exist.
— Bruce H. Lipton
I will repeat a technique until it is mastered, no matter when that will be. One certainty though: it will be.
— Georges St-Pierre
That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have.
— Richard Bach
You can never rightly judge another person's life because as a person, you only know the truth, with certainty, of your own experiences.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
One cannot escape from the world with greater certainty than through art, and one cannot relate to it with greater certainty than through art.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.
— William Boyd
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
— Thomas Carlyle
Those willing to trade freedom for certainty are certain to find the cure worse than the ailment.
— Richard Paul Evans
I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps.
— Tom Hodgkinson
But fishing, as we know, in libraries or anywhere else, is a tricky business, with never a certainty of who's going to catch whom.
— J.D. Salinger
I will go on quietly and slowly, but I will go on firmly, and with a certainty of success.
— Daniel O'Connell
The opposite of faith is not doubt, it's certainty.
— Anne Lamott
What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.
— Stephen Hawking
When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.
— Criss Jami
To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty.
— John Stuart Mill
Certainty is a comfort. And a hindrance.
— Jason M. Steffens
Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous.
— Donald Rumsfeld
To have great pain is to have certainty; to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt.
— Elaine Scarry
Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.
— Harry Browne
Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Our one certainty in life is death.
— Jean P. Sasson
No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.
— Charles Caleb Colton
When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.
— Ernest Holmes
The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.
— Oswald Chambers
Pleasure built upon pleasure, the certainty of my ability amplifying with each new trial.
— Amy Cuddy
Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?
— Philip Yancey
What distinguishes knowledge is not certainty but evidence.
— Jerry A. Coyne
In this age of ours it's hard to say with certainty that having lived was better than not having been born in the first place.
— Kenzaburo Oe
History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.
— Julian Barnes
May your wonder always exceed your certainty.
— David Wolpe
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
— Erich Fromm
Even the stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found?
— Marcus Aurelius
All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.
— Bertrand Russell
Why do you grieve so uselessly? Every uncertainty is the result of a certainty. There is nothing in this world really to be lamented.
— Murasaki Shikibu
Passion is the desire to do something with fervor. It is the certainty that one is going to accomplish their dreams.
— Subhan Zein
envied their certainty about the future.
— David Mitchell
The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessarycondition for knowledge. — Kedar Joshi
Between certainty and the real, an ancient enmity.
— Jane Hirshfield
She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.
— Susan Wiggs
Think fast on facts.
— Toba Beta
That's a huge gamble." "We're long past the time for careful certainty.
— Peter F. Hamilton
Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain. — Richard P. Feynman
Men listened closer to calm tones than to the loudest shouts, so long as firmness and certainty accompanied the calm.
— Robert Jordan
I want to say to you: Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty.
— John Patrick Shanley
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of His with the certainty of experience. I have touched it.
— Simone Weil
Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.
— Djuna Barnes
Certainty is the enemy of change.
— Salvador Minuchin
Certainty a strange Ferris wheel of a statement!
— John Allen Paulos
Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.
— Henri Poincare
Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.
— Joseph Bruchac
Certainty abolishes hope, and robs us of renewal.
— Neil Postman
Is there any certainty like the Truth?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Perhaps, it is better to be decided than undecided. But it is certainly the best to stay decidedly undecided.
— Raheel Farooq
When Lucky spilled his seed inside her, Molly knew with a certainty that they had just made a new life together.
— Eugenia Riley
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.
— R. YS Perez
Even if one's head were to be suddenly cut off, he should be able to do one more action with certainty.
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
For investor confidence, it is important that there is certainty about the future of Ireland in E.U.
— Jose Manuel Barroso
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
— Bertrand Russell
Moral certainty is never more than probability.
— Giovanni Battista Beccaria
Both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold
— Kathryn Schulz
Let go of consistency, let go of certainty. Learn to live with the waves of change and uncertainty.
— Debasish Mridha
The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life.
— Edgar Morin
I rescued him from the certainty of a turmoil and put him in a turmoil of uncertainty.
— Khaled Hosseini
The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.
— Franz Kafka
Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.
— Piers Anthony
If you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain ...
— John Geddes
One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.
— Sophocles
Sometimes certainty can sound an awful lot like madness.
— Ann Aguirre
Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.
— Keith Devlin
IT IS SAID TO AWAIT CERTAINTY IS TO AWAIT ETERNITY.
— Jonas Salk
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
— Tom Stoppard
