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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

The more she studied, the harder it became to speak or know anything with certainty. — Chris Kraus

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

Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty. — Jeffrey Fry

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

Dialogue starts with the willingness to challenge our own thinking, to recognize that any certainty we have is, at best, a hypothesis about the world. — Peter Senge

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

Although we may trust God's promises for life after death and the certainty of a heavenly home, we must still face the reality of death. — Billy Graham

To have great pain is to have certainty; to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt. — Elaine Scarry

You should have certainty in what you do. Anyone who has done anything in this world was hated. If you're not hated, you've done nothing. — Yehuda Berg

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

Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well. — Brian Eno

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

Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one. — Voltaire

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

Life is exciting because of uncertainty. Certainty make it very dull and boring. — Debasish Mridha

One must learn by doing the thing; though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. -Sophocles — Tom Walsh

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

It was like the time he'd failed algebra and felt so relieved, so free: failure was definite, a certainty, and there is always peace in certainties. — Truman Capote

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

People always tell me with absolute certainty that they don't trust themselves. — Richard Bandler

Between certainty and the real, an ancient enmity. — Jane Hirshfield

Intolerance is the natural concomitant of strong faith; tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous. Plato — Will Durant

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

Little wonder he felt so often that he'd prolapsed all moral certainty. — Simon Spurrier

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

Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one. — Voltaire

A large part of being a parent is a constant near certainty that you are screwing it up, and it is comforting to be able to spread the blame around. — Cody McFadyen

You want to be a hero? Learn to create certainty in the face of fear. — Tony Robbins

When people feel doubt in their hearts,
a certainty might be felt in an ice cream. — Toba Beta

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

What I most wanted even at that early age, was to capture and hold the truth, with the certainty and love that it brings. — Neil Turok

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

I know nothing but the certainty of my own ignorance. — Socrates

Even if one's head were to be suddenly cut off, he should be able to do one more action with certainty. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

It is the certainty that you are about to recover, that brings results, not the hope. — Emile Coue

The only certainty is uncertainty, except your own death, that's damn certain. — Rick Yancey

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

One needs to know what thought is, what existence is and what certainty is. — Rene Descartes

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

I'm opposed to censure, .. Whether or not one will be permitted, it's under discussion. It isn't ruled out, but it's not a dead-bang certainty either. — Henry Hyde

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

I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better ... — Chris Bohjalian

She moved as fast as her feet could carry her, for what reason she had no certainty of.
The only certainty was going forward. — R.R. Washburn