Best 310 quotes in «certainty quotes» category

People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty

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

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

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

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

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

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.

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

Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.

Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.

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

Statistics were magic like this: they could tell you with near-certainty that a thing would occur, without a hint of when or where.

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

Statistically it's a certainty there are hugely advanced civilizations, intelligences, life forms out there. I believe they're so advanced they're even doing interstellar travel. I believe it's possible they even came here.

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

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

The more I see, the less I know.

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

The only certainty is uncertainty

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

The only certainty life contains is death.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 is no certainty; there is only adventure.

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!

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

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

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

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.

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.

VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.

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

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.

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 have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

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

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 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.