Certainty famous quotes

The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Doubt #Certainty #Lack Of Faith

We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Christian #World #Certainty

If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
-- Ajahn Chah

#Suffering #Uncertain #Certainty

VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Virtue #Certain #Certainty

I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.
-- Andreas Vesalius

#Two #Certainty #Observation

Certainty is missing the point entirely.
-- Anne Lamott

#Missing #Certainty

The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.
-- Anne Lamott

#Opposites #Doubt #Certainty

The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Reality #Certainty

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
-- Ashley Montagu

#Science #Proof #Certainty

Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
-- B. W. Powe

#Pathology #Certainty

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.
-- Ben Whishaw

#Choices #Next #Certainty

There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
-- Bernard Crick

#Desire #Danger #Certainty

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.
-- Bethenny Frankel

#Fate #Certainty #Manipulate

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
-- Carl von Clausewitz

#Clarity #Certainty #Intellect

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment
-- Cesare Beccaria

#Punishment #Crime #Certainty

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

#Magic #Certainty

We have to be mindful that there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which is us and our allies.
-- Cofer Black

#Enemy #Allies #Certainty

In a world of moral certainty, the unthinkable becomes permissible.
-- Cullen Murphy

#World #Moral #Certainty

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

#Blind #Certainty #Prisoner

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

#Doubt #Certainty

Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.
-- Djuna Barnes

#Law #Produce #Certainty

It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works.
-- Edmond Jabes

#Creativity #Creative #Certainty

How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?
-- Eileen Wilks

#Feelings #Certainty

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco

#Hope #Luck #Certainty

Certainty is a cruel mindset.
-- Ellen Langer

#Ironic #Mindset #Certainty

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

#Healing #Results #Certainty

American businesses are looking for are certainty and executive orders don't really get them that.
-- Eric Bolling

#Order #Executive Orders #Certainty

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
-- Eric Hoffer

#Thinking #Certain #Certainty

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

#World #This World #Certainty

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

#Character #Salvation #Certainty

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
-- Garrett Hardin

#Decay #Morality #Certainty

To discover, or recover, the sense of religious certainty one must worship.
-- Georgia Harkness

#Religious #Worship #Certainty

Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.
-- Geraldine Brooks

#People #Moral #Certainty

Moral certainty is never more than probability.
-- Giovanni Battista Beccaria

#Science #Moral #Certainty

We never have 100 percent certainty. We never have it. If you wait until you have 100 percent certainty, something bad is going to happen on the battlefield.
-- Gordon R. Sullivan

#Waiting #Climate #Certainty

The only certainty is death.
-- Guy de Maupassant

#Certainty

Claiming certainty without corroborating evidence is stupid.
-- Han Fei

#Stupid #Humility #Certainty

It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.
-- Henri Poincare

#Certainty

There are no means of attaining faith and certainty except through the Qur'an.
-- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#Mean #Certainty

Through patience and certainty, leadership in the religion is obtained.
-- Ibn Taymiyyah

#Certainty

Once you get it into your head that somebody is controlling events, you can interpret everything in that light and find no reasonable certainty anywhere.
-- Isaac Asimov

#Light #Events #Certainty

I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties.
-- Isaac Newton

#Conjecture #Certainty

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.
-- James Lovelock

#If There Is A God #Scientist #Certainty

No one can forecast the economy with certainty.
-- Jamie Dimon

#Economy #Certainty

There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.
-- Jeremy Collier

#Ease #Reason #Certainty

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!
-- Jesse Ball

#Would Be #False Hope #Certainty

In the absence of certainty, instinct is all you can follow.
-- Jonathan Cainer

#Absence #Instinct #Certainty

A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses.
-- Jonathan Swift

#Kissing #Two #Certainty

For investor confidence, it is important that there is certainty about the future of Ireland in E.U.
-- Jose Manuel Barroso

#Important #Certainty #Ireland

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.
-- Joseph Glanvill

#Doubt #Needs #Certainty

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

#Mean #Forever #Certainty

Moral certainty is intellectual immorality
-- Kedar Joshi

#Intellectual #Morality #Certainty

Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.
-- Keith Devlin

#Ontology #Logic #Certainty

Vast ills have followed a belief in certainty.
-- Kenneth Arrow

#Belief #Certainty

Certainty, not data, is knowledge.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Data #Certainty

No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.
-- Leon Wieseltier

#Deeds #Bliss #Certainty

Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.
-- Leonhard Euler

#Foundation #Logic #Certainty

If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Games #Doubt #Certainty

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

#Littles #Found #Certainty

Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.
-- Margaret Heffernan

#Religion #Certainty

It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
-- Maurice Merleau-Ponty

#Essence #Reservations #Certainty

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

#Certainty #Speculation

Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties
-- Murray Gell-Mann

#Sometimes #Certainty #Probability

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.
-- Nicolaus Copernicus

#Earth #Surface #Certainty

We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.
-- Norm MacDonald

#Disappointment #Expectations #Certainty

... the body, normally, is never in question: our bodies are beyond question, or perhaps beneath question - they are simply, unquestionably, there. This unquestionability of the body, is, for Wittgenstein, the start and basis of all knowledge and certainty.
-- Oliver Sacks

#Body #Certainty #Bases

We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#Certainty

Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.
-- Oswald Chambers

#Spiritual #Mark #Certainty

The only certainty life contains is death.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Certainty

Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.
-- Peter Elbow

#Hunger #Increase #Certainty

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

#Certainty #Taxes

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
-- Pliny the Elder

#Matter #Certain #Certainty

The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.
-- Rem Koolhaas

#Certainty #Consensus #Exploding

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

#People #Absolute Certainty #Certainty

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
-- Robert Burns

#Inspirational #Certainty #Cockiness

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

#Order #Needs #Certainty

The only certainty is that there is no certainty.
-- Robert Rubin

#Certainty

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
-- Roberto Assagioli

#Adventure #Funny Travel #Certainty

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

#Women #Intuition #Certainty

Certainty is the enemy of change.
-- Salvador Minuchin

#Enemy #Certainty

It is wise to be sure, but otherwise to be too sure.
-- Sophie Irene Loeb

#Wise #Certainty

One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.
-- Stefan Molyneux

#Way #Emotion #Certainty

What makes you so certain?" "But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?" "Yes!" "Then you want death.
-- Stephen R. Lawhead

#Want #Certain #Certainty

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.
-- Steve Hackett

#Philosophy #Certainty #Deals

Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand.
-- Susan Abulhawa

#Hands #Take My Hand #Certainty

When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.
-- Terence Stamp

#Kind #Certainty #Rough

Certainty becomes you.
-- Tessa Dare

#Certainty

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

#Certainty #Investors

Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty.
-- Timothy Keller

#Commitment #Reason #Certainty

If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.
-- Toni Morrison

#Anticipation #Certainty

Just because someone seems to have more certainty, doesn't mean they're right.
-- Tony Robbins

#Mean #Certainty

People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty
-- Virginia Satir

#People #Misery #Certainty

Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.
-- Will Durant

#Tolerance #Certainty #Grows

Certainty is an unrealistic and unattainable ideal
-- William Lane Craig

#Unattainable #Certainty

One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided.
-- Willy Russell

#Life Is #Should #Certainty

Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
-- Wislawa Szymborska

#Beautiful #Certainty #Stills

Life is ever evolving. The only certainty is change.
-- Allison McAtee

#Life Is #Certainty #Evolve

You can safely appeal to the UN in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
-- Conor Cruise O'Brien

#Appeals #Certainty #United Nations

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

#Goes On #Certainty

ritual lulls our fear of disorder with the certainty of order.
-- E. M. Broner

#Order #Certainty #Ritual