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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
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
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
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
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
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
Uncertainty would be the only certainty there's, and realizing how to stay with insecurity could be the only protection
— John Allen Paulos
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" naturethe 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Living by faith isn't living with certainty. It's trusting God in spite of unanswered questions and unresolved doubts.
— Rick Warren
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
Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.
— Joseph Bruchac
