Best 310 quotes in «certainty quotes» category

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

[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.

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

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.

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.

If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.

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

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

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

I have no talent for certainty.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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 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 started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Life is ever evolving. The only certainty is change.

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

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.

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.

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

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

Moral certainty is intellectual immorality

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

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

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

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.