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