Best 310 quotes in «certainty quotes» category

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

God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts.

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.

[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.

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

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

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

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

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

I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps.

If the Bible is uniquely and inerrantly inspired, then we have certainty; we may know real truth about God

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

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

If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.

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

I have no talent for certainty.

I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.

I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

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

I'm opposed to censure, .. Whether or not one will be permitted, it's under discussion. It isn't ruled out, but it's not a dead-bang certainty either.

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

Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God.

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

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

I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties.

I remembered standing in the middle of the street in front of The Crooked Bookshelf, filled with the certainty of a future. I had heard the wolves howling behind the house and remembered how glad I had been to be human.

In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being unsure.

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

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

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime

It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.

Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.

It is wise to be sure, but otherwise to be too sure.

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

Life is ever evolving. The only certainty is change.

I will repeat a technique until it is mastered, no matter when that will be. One certainty though: it will be.

Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.

Knowledge breeds doubt, not certainty, And the more we know the more uncertain we become.

Living by faith isn't living with certainty. It's trusting God in spite of unanswered questions and unresolved doubts.

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

Maybe under all that guilt and certainty that he couldn't love again, he still wanted me. I would have liked to have found out. But I didn't have the time. Instead, I punched him.

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

Neither the intensity of your feelings nor the certainty of your convictions is any assurance that you are right.

No one can forecast the economy with certainty.