quotes about Certainty
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The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
-- Ajahn Chah -
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I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.
-- Andreas VesaliusSource : Letter on the China Root, quoted in "Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564" by Charles Donald O'Malley, 1964.
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The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.
-- Anne Lamott -
The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
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Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
-- Ashley Montagu -
Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
-- B. W. PoweSource : "Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose". Book by B. W. Powe, 2007.
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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 WhishawSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
-- Bernard Crick -
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I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.
-- Bethenny FrankelSource : Bethenny Frankel (2012). “Skinnydipping: A Novel”, p.341, Simon and Schuster
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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
-- Carl von Clausewitz -
Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment
-- Cesare Beccaria -
I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better....
-- Chris BohjalianSource : FaceBook post by Chris Bohjalian from Oct 08, 2015
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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 -
In a world of moral certainty, the unthinkable becomes permissible.
-- Cullen MurphySource : Cullen Murphy (2012). “God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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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 -
I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.
-- David James DuncanSource : David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.40, Dial Press
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Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.
-- Djuna Barnes -
It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works.
-- Edmond JabesSource : Edmond Jabès (1977). “The Book of Questions: The Book of Yukel, Return to the Book”, Wesleyan
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How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?
-- Eileen Wilks -
We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco -
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It is the certainty that you are about to recover, that brings results, not the hope.
-- Emile Coue -
American businesses are looking for are certainty and executive orders don't really get them that.
-- Eric Bolling -
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
-- Eric HofferSource : The True Believer Part 3, Chapter XII, Section 57 (p. 79)
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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 GuerinSource : Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters of Eugénie de Guérin”, p.273
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The certainty of our salvation rests on the character of God.
-- F.B. Meyer -
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
-- Garrett Hardin -
To discover, or recover, the sense of religious certainty one must worship.
-- Georgia Harkness -
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Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.
-- Geraldine Brooks -
Moral certainty is never more than probability.
-- Giovanni Battista Beccaria -
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.
-- Gordon R. Sullivan -
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Claiming certainty without corroborating evidence is stupid.
-- Han Fei -
It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.
-- Henri PoincareSource : The Foundations of Science Science and Hypothesis (p. 129)
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There are no means of attaining faith and certainty except through the Qur'an.
-- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya -
Through patience and certainty, leadership in the religion is obtained.
-- Ibn Taymiyyah -
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Once you get it into your head that somebody is controlling events, you can interpret everything in that light and find no reasonable certainty anywhere.
-- Isaac Asimov -
I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties.
-- Isaac Newton -
I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.
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No one can forecast the economy with certainty.
-- Jamie DimonSource : "Improving Housing Market Driving Economy: Jamie Dimon" by Margo D. Beller, www.cnbc.com. March 28, 2012.
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There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.
-- Jeremy CollierSource : Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.105
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That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!
-- Jesse BallSource : FaceBook post by Jesse Ball from Jul 29, 2013
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In the absence of certainty, instinct is all you can follow.
-- Jonathan Cainer -
A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses.
-- Jonathan Swift -
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For investor confidence, it is important that there is certainty about the future of Ireland in E.U.
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And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.
-- Joseph GlanvillSource : Joseph Glanvill (1885). “Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science ; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing and Confident Opinion”
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Maybe that's what is means to be human . . . forever questioning our certainties.
-- Kay Hooper -
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Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.
-- Keith DevlinSource : Keith Devlin (2003). “Sets, Functions, and Logic: An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics, Third Edition”, p.7, CRC Press
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Vast ills have followed a belief in certainty.
-- Kenneth Arrow -
No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.
-- Leon Wieseltier -
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Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.
-- Leonhard Euler -
If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein -
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?
-- Marcus Aurelius -
Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.
-- Margaret Heffernan -
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It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
-- Maurice Merleau-Ponty -
Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
-- Michael FaradaySource : The Homiletic Review, April 1896.
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Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties
-- Murray Gell-Mann -
We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.
-- Nicolaus Copernicus -
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We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.
-- Norm MacDonald -
... the body, normally, is never in question: our bodies are beyond question, or perhaps beneath question - they are simply, unquestionably, there. This unquestionability of the body, is, for Wittgenstein, the start and basis of all knowledge and certainty.
-- Oliver Sacks -
We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.
-- Oswald Chambers -
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The only certainty life contains is death.
-- Patricia Briggs -
Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.
-- Peter ElbowSource : Peter Elbow (1986). “Embracing contraries: explorations in learning and teaching”, Oxford University Press, USA
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Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.
-- Piers Anthony -
In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
-- Pliny the Elder -
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The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.
-- Rem Koolhaas -
People always tell me with absolute certainty that they don't trust themselves.
-- Richard Bandler -
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
-- Robert Burns -
Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion.
-- Robert Charles Wilson -
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The only certainty is that there is no certainty.
-- Robert Rubin -
There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
-- Roberto Assagioli -
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
-- Rudyard KiplingSource : Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.724, e-artnow (Open Publishing)
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Certainty is the enemy of change.
-- Salvador MinuchinSource : Salvador Minuchin, Michael D. Reiter, Charmaine Borda (2013). “The Craft of Family Therapy: Challenging Certainties”, p.4, Routledge
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It is wise to be sure, but otherwise to be too sure.
-- Sophie Irene Loeb -
One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.
-- Stefan Molyneux -
What makes you so certain?" "But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?" "Yes!" "Then you want death.
-- Stephen R. Lawhead -
Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.
-- Steve Hackett -
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Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand.
-- Susan AbulhawaSource : Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.233, Bloomsbury Publishing
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When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.
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Certainty becomes you.
-- Tessa DareSource : Tessa Dare (2012). “A Week to Be Wicked”, p.18, Harper Collins
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Change is the investor's only certainty.
-- Thomas Rowe Price, Jr. -
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Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty.
-- Timothy Keller -
If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.
-- Toni Morrison -
Just because someone seems to have more certainty, doesn't mean they're right.
-- Tony Robbins -
People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty
-- Virginia Satir -
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.
-- Will Durant -
Certainty is an unrealistic and unattainable ideal
-- William Lane Craig -
One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided.
-- Willy Russell -
Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
-- Wislawa SzymborskaSource : Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Map: Collected and Last Poems”, p.302, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Life is ever evolving. The only certainty is change.
-- Allison McAteeSource : "Actor Allison McAtee: The best in everyone, being a crybaby, and practicing japa meditation". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
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You can safely appeal to the UN in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
-- Conor Cruise O'Brien -
I will go on quietly and slowly, but I will go on firmly, and with a certainty of success.
-- Daniel O'ConnellSource : Daniel O'Connell (1872). “Life and Speeches of Daniel O'Connell ....: Including Many Speeches Not in Other Collections”, p.187
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ritual lulls our fear of disorder with the certainty of order.
-- E. M. Broner -