Best 310 quotes in «certainty quotes» category

But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.

Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.

Certainty is an unrealistic and unattainable ideal

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

Certainty abolishes hope, and robs us of renewal.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.

Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.

Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.

Certainty is a cruel mindset.

Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.

Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.

Certainty, not data, is knowledge.

Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous.

Change is the investor's only certainty.

Claiming certainty without corroborating evidence is stupid.

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.

Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic.

Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand.

Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one. This is a virtual certainty because even in the vacuum matter is one; and if we don't see this, it's because we are blinding ourselves to it.

Deep down in everyone was sorrow and certainty.

Digital television is no longer a probability, it is a certainty.

Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

Discovering, for example, that as witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you are or have been. [p. 65]

Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.

Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?

Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

Doubt is long-winded. Certainty is brief.

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

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

Even the stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found?

God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.

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

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 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.