Quotes and Sayings About Certainty

The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Doubt #Certainty #Lack Of Faith

We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Christian #World #Certainty

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

#Suffering #Uncertain #Certainty

VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Virtue #Certain #Certainty

I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.
-- Andreas Vesalius

#Two #Certainty #Observation

Certainty is missing the point entirely.
-- Anne Lamott

#Missing #Certainty

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

#Opposites #Doubt #Certainty

The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Reality #Certainty

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
-- Ashley Montagu

#Science #Proof #Certainty

Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
-- B. W. Powe

#Pathology #Certainty

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.
-- Ben Whishaw

#Choices #Next #Certainty

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

#Desire #Danger #Certainty

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.
-- Bethenny Frankel

#Fate #Certainty #Manipulate

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
-- Carl von Clausewitz

#Clarity #Certainty #Intellect

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

#Punishment #Crime #Certainty

I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better....
-- Chris Bohjalian

#Magic #Certainty

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.
-- Cofer Black

#Enemy #Allies #Certainty

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

#World #Moral #Certainty

Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up.
-- David Foster

#Blind #Certainty #Prisoner

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.
-- David James Duncan

#Doubt #Certainty

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

#Law #Produce #Certainty

It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works.
-- Edmond Jabes

#Creativity #Creative #Certainty

How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?
-- Eileen Wilks

#Feelings #Certainty

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco

#Hope #Luck #Certainty

Certainty is a cruel mindset.
-- Ellen Langer

#Ironic #Mindset #Certainty

It is the certainty that you are about to recover, that brings results, not the hope.
-- Emile Coue

#Healing #Results #Certainty

American businesses are looking for are certainty and executive orders don't really get them that.
-- Eric Bolling

#Order #Executive Orders #Certainty

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
-- Eric Hoffer

#Thinking #Certain #Certainty

My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.
-- Eugenie de Guerin

#World #This World #Certainty

The certainty of our salvation rests on the character of God.
-- F.B. Meyer

#Character #Salvation #Certainty