Best 310 quotes in «certainty quotes» category

You have only as a result of certainty.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them.

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

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

Between certainty and the real, an ancient enmity.

A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses.

At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble

Certainty is an unrealistic and unattainable ideal

But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

Certainty abolishes hope, and robs us of renewal.

Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

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

Certainty is a cruel mindset.

Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.

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

Certainty, not data, is knowledge.

Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous.

Change is the investor's only certainty.

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

Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.

Claiming certainty without corroborating evidence is stupid.

Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.

Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic.

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

Deep down in everyone was sorrow and certainty.

Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one. This is a virtual certainty because even in the vacuum matter is one; and if we don't see this, it's because we are blinding ourselves to it.

Digital television is no longer a probability, it is a certainty.

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

Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.

Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

Doubt is long-winded. Certainty is brief.

Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?

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

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

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?

Discovering, for example, that as witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you are or have been. [p. 65]

[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.

God's heart calls to our hearts, inviting us to come out of ourselves, to forsake our human certainties, to trust in him and, by following his example, to make ourselves a gift of unbounded love.

God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts.

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death.

I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd.

I believe faith is not certainty but the courage to live with uncertainty.

How is it that one rails against that which is nearly a certainty?

If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.