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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

At the atomic level, matter does not even exist with certainty; it only exists as a tendency to exist. — Bruce H. Lipton

There is no arrogance more harmful than one's certainty that their religious beliefs be compulsory for everyone. — F. Lee Barham

I'd rather have a uncertainty than certainty. I don't want to know what's going to happen. It can't be good. — Colleen Hoover

That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have. — Richard Bach

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

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

Maybe, in the absence of any certainty, we should just assume that we're going to live a long time. Maybe that's the only way forward. — Paul Kalanithi

I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement. — William Boyd

I put heavy weight on certainty. It's not risky to buy securities at a fraction of what they're worth. — Warren Buffett

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. — Thomas Carlyle

Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift. — Milan Kundera

Confusion is not a bad thing. It's not doubt that makes a man mad. It's certainty. — Pauline Melville

So I guess I learned there's no such thing as a flash of certainty. It's a flash, for sure, but it isn't certainty, even if it feels like certainty. — Andrea Cremer

I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps. — Tom Hodgkinson

I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our backs waiting to deceive us. — Umberto Eco

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

The only certainty is that we never know what tomorrow holds. We live for today, life is short, so let's enjoy it together while we can. — Jinxx

It's that knowledge that sustains you through tough times, the certainty that you will always be less without each other than you are together. — Colette McBeth

The opposite of faith is not doubt, it's certainty. — Anne Lamott

What's gotten into you?" he wondered, blinking in sudden frustration.
"Not you, that's for a certainty. — Matt Tomerlin

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 Jami

Literature will save me it's the only certainty i am sure of. — Nikki Rowe

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

If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong. — Joe Biden

What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise. — Stephen Hawking

There's no such thing in this world as absolute certainty. So accept that and go forward acting toward the best outcome no matter what. — Kenneth Atchity

Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory? Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty. — Jean Shepherd

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

Change is the investor's only certainty. — Thomas Rowe Price Jr.

You are young, Father Iron Horse, and you have a young man's vices. Certainty. Shortsightedness. Contempt for pragmatism. — Mary Doria Russell

It's certain death anyway, said Ridcully. That's the thing about Death, certainty. — Terry Pratchett

Perhaps, it is better to be decided than undecided. But it is certainly the best to stay decidedly undecided. — Raheel Farooq

That's the hardest part,' he says. 'The absence of certainty.' - Tucker — Cynthia Hand

There's something almost weightless about our world, I think, something fleeting and insubstantial that's ill at ease with any pretence of certainty. — Deirdre Madden

Death is both a certainty and an unknown, Chuck says. It's hard to get a grip on it. — Abigail Thomas

The fraudster's greatest liability is the certainty that the fraud is too clever to be detected. — Louis J. Freeh

Is there any certainty like the Truth? — Lailah Gifty Akita

I brought Hassan's son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty — Khaled Hosseini

I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden. — Jodi Picoult

Luck is a favorable thing out of an uncertainty.
No such thing as luck when everything's certain. — Toba Beta

Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up. — David Foster

Such is true joy's absolute certainty,
Its slow lit fuse that burns holes
In the shabby shroud of death forever. — Scott Hastie

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's a certainty, but it just might work. — Terry Pratchett

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

How wise should we be if, with joyful certainty, we accepted each unfolding of His will as a proof of His faithfulness and love! — Susannah Spurgeon

There is a long history of how DNA sequencing can bring certainty to people's lives. — Craig Venter

Uncertainty would be the only certainty there's, and realizing how to stay with insecurity could be the only protection — John Allen Paulos

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

It's good to have some certainty in life, even if it's only that I'm in deep trouble. — Ashleigh Brilliant

The logical extension of synthetic nature is the irrelevance of "true" nature
the certainty that it's not even worth looking at. (62) — Richard Louv

I say it's better to take a chance on the possibility of kindness than endure the certainty of cruelty. — Courtney Schafer

No more pharmaceuticals. No more certainty of surviving a scratch on one's hand, a cut on a finger while chopping vegetables for dinner, a dog bite. — Emily St. John Mandel

They do not fear the men beneath the tree;
They pace in sleek chivalric certainty. — Adrienne Rich

Chance is life's only certainty. — Mickey Wyte

Real dialogue is where two or more people become willing to suspend their certainty in each other's presence. — David Bohm

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty. — Stephen Colbert

It seems to me the better question is whether there's any virtue in committing to a permanent and unexamined certainty. — James S.A. Corey

There's no certainty in this, Baruk. That seems a fact particularly galling to you humans. — Steven Erikson

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

When Lucky spilled his seed inside her, Molly knew with a certainty that they had just made a new life together. — Eugenia Riley

In response to a letter regarding the writer's lack of religious belief:
The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty. — Abigail Van Buren

Taleb's hero, on the other hand, is Karl Popper, who said that you could not know with any certainty that a proposition was true; — Malcolm Gladwell

Men listened closer to calm tones than to the loudest shouts, so long as firmness and certainty accompanied the calm. — Robert Jordan

That's a huge gamble." "We're long past the time for careful certainty. — Peter F. Hamilton

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

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

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

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

Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty
some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain. — Richard P. Feynman

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

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

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

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

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

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread. — C.S. Lewis

Certainty abolishes hope, and robs us of renewal. — Neil Postman

Maybe that's what is means to be human ... forever questioning our certainties. — Kay Hooper

People fear leaving their safe harbor of the known and venturing off into the unknown. Human beings crave certainty - even when it limits them. — Robin S. Sharma

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. — Rudyard Kipling

I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door. — John Patrick Shanley

There is nothing worse than certainty. Doubt makes us weak. That is why it's so important. I've wasted too much of my life trying to be powerful. — Phillip Andrew Bennett Low

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

There's only one certainty in life. A strong man stands above and conquers all! — Akira Toriyama

Living by faith isn't living with certainty. It's trusting God in spite of unanswered questions and unresolved doubts. — Rick Warren

Let's make sure that there is certainty during uncertain times in our economy. — George W. Bush

I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything. — Ian McKellen

Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it's not arrogant. — Jeanette Winterson

There's only one certainty in life: how you come into the world. Where you go from there is up to you. — Katie Kacvinsky

Acting with confidence, but inside lacking certainty, I'd told her I could. — S.A. Tawks

Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty. — Joseph Bruchac

Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else's simply because I know why I said what I said. — Criss Jami

Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty. — Henri Poincare