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Only years of practice will teach you the mysteries and bold certainty of a real gardener, who treads at random, yet tramples on nothing. — Karel Capek

In teaching there can be too much emphasis on certainty and a proper appreciation of uncertainty is to be encouraged. — Dennis Lindley

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

Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties. — Michael Faraday

The other guys are selling certainty. Not me. I'm on the corner with doubt. — Bill Maher

Action based on hope just felt better than the paralysis of certainty. — Christopher Moore

In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid. — Cesare Pavese

I will go on quietly and slowly, but I will go on firmly, and with a certainty of success. — Daniel O'Connell

The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt. — Wendy Kaminer

The certainty of our salvation rests on the character of God. — F.B. Meyer

The joke is on both of you. Your sanction is the only source of certainty he has. — Ayn Rand

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty. — David James Duncan

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

Though what could anyone really say these days with one hundred percent certainty? — Garth Risk Hallberg

I never cling on to hope or certainty. They're the enemies of peace. — Anthony Hopkins

If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet. — Pema Chodron

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

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

Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land. — Carter Heyward

Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty. — Piers Anthony

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

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing. — Victor Hugo

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

Think fast on facts. — Toba Beta

Faith does not rely on knowing anything with certainty. It requires only the courage to accept that whatever happens is for the highest good. — Dan Millman

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

May the love in your heart overshadow any sorrows, and may you always know with a deep inner certainty, how loved you truly are. — Jodi Livon

What awaits you? Eternal peace. Serenity. The light on the other side. What awaits me is unknown. The only certainty is that life is an eternal hell. — Julie Anne Peters

Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion. — Robert Charles Wilson

He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. What certainty had he that a single human creature now living was on his side? — George Orwell

there is anything to be learned from the conspiracy - other than when in doubt, bet on George Washington - it is to beware the pitfalls of certainty. — Sarah Vowell

My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death
it is the only certainty. — Eugenie De Guerin

To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life. — Sheila Heti

Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty. — Francois Mauriac

Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom. — Chip Kidd