Best 310 quotes in «certainty quotes» category

That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have.

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

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

The difference between religion and science is the difference between thoughtless certainty and thoughtful doubt.

The certainty of our salvation rests on the character of God.

The fraudster's greatest liability is the certainty that the fraud is too clever to be detected.

The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform.

The more I see, the less I know.

The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.

The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.

The only certainty life contains is death.

The only certainties that don't break down are those acquired in prayer.

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

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

The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.

The only certainty about following the crowd is that you will all get there together.

The only certainty is uncertainty

The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty and both - precision and certainty are impossible to attain.

There is certainty in a ring. The non-ending, the non-beginning. The ongoing. The way it holds on to you not because it's fastened or stretched or adhered. It holds on because it fits.

There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will experience hardship and stress at some point.

There has to be some certainty about who the leader is before the summer break.

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

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.

The traditional thinking has been that the stock market likes certainty.

The universe only gives you what you can handle, so trust that whatever is happening to you is exactly what you need. Just trust. Have certainty!

The things of another world being distant, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconvenience, we must frequently revolve their certainty and importance.

Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.

We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.

VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.

We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion

We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

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.

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.

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

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.

Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when the world doesn't fit.

What men really want is not knowledge but certainty.

When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty.

...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

A certain way to have financial security in life is not enough savings, but enough ability.

A certain bygone philosophy-which certainly must have quite forgotten all about the real child-used to speak of the child's nature as a tabula rasa, or 'blank page,' upon which experience and training might write what they pleased. As a matter of fact, the child's nature at birth, like that of a calf or a chick, is pretty well scribbled over by the experience of its ancestors. It is far from being blank, for as soon as the little organism comes into the world, it begins to do certain things and do them with much zeal and determination, as every one knows who knows real children.

Yes, he would have done that for Tessa - died to keep the ones she needed beside her - and so would Jem have done that for him or for Tessa, and so would Tessa, he thought, do that for both of them. It was a near incomprehensible tangle, the three of them, but there was one certainty, and that was that there was no lack of love between them.

After more darkness and silence, I said, “Well, do you believe in the informed decision?” More darkness and silence. “No!” I envy his certainty! He understood that a determined life had its limits. “I had a wonderful life and I had nothing to do with it”—well, now I can say that, too. There is this sense of being on your own path.

All life is preoccupied with death. Death is the only certain future. Yet in the face of reason, everyone holds out hope for the highly improbable.

And it was like I knew, and that certainty planted itself in my belly like a warm secret.