Best 310 quotes in «certainty quotes» category

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

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.

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

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.

I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties.

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

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

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

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

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

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.

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

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

Life is ever evolving. The only certainty is change.

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

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

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

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 not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

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

Moral certainty is intellectual immorality

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

Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.

Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.

Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.

Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change

Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.

Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight. It is not willingness to know, but willingness to DO (obey) God's will that brings certainty.

One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.

One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, Right. Now I understand how this is done.

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve.

People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty

Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

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

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

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

Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence.

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

ritual lulls our fear of disorder with the certainty of order.

Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.

No one can forecast the economy with certainty.

Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties

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