Certainty Quotes

What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt.

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

Infinite possibility in all things is a certainty. That pretty much covers theology and philosophy for me.

The need for certainty is the greatest disease the Mind faces

This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime!

People fear leaving their safe harbor of the known and venturing off into the unknown. Human beings crave certainty - even when it limits them.

From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it will find most alleviations.

Anything that has low certainty or has a lot of impact should be tested early.

Terrorism is based on two major pillars: One is injustice, and the other is a certainty of attitude, the notion that their version of the story is the correct one.

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

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

What makes you so certain?" "But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?" "Yes!" "Then you want death.

I know the exact date that I began writing Twilight, because it was also the first day of swim lessons for my kids. So I can say with certainty that it all started on June 2, 2003.

We are all of us invented. We are all of us cobbled together from cartilage and dust. Few of us know with certainty the name of our maker. But I do... Bram Stoker.

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

There was no way to know that certainty would one day become a luxury, too.

There was the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry.

When two people meet, as long as there is any form of rapport maintained, the person with the most certainty will eventually influence ther other person.

The person with the most certainty in a given situation will influence the other.

In the [John F.] Kennedy case, I believe the absence of a conspiracy can be proved to a virtual certainty.

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

I put heavy weight on certainty. It's not risky to buy securities at a fraction of what they're worth.

The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt.

We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics.

You’ve got to be sure of yourself beforeYou can ever win a prize.

Of all sciences there is none, where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

Roark spoke quietly. He was the only man in the room who felt certain of his own words.

One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

Deeply convinced of the reality of the divine will, he (Lincoln) had no patience at all with any who were perfectly sure they knew the details of the divine will.

There are no facts only interpretations.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is.

Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise.

What men want is not knowledge but certainty.

No one knows for sure about the future. But if you feel reluctant to plan something about it, then someone with guts would define it for you.

I know that I do not know, and uncertainty, certainly, is the cruelest of words.

Having friends was weird . . . but in a good way.

How do you ever hold on to anybody?

Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence.

The beauty of life does not reside in certainty or conformity. It resides in the infinite possibilities of uncertainty.

Doubter wants proof which contributes nothing to her faith.

The opposite of faith isn’t doubt. The opposite of faith is certainty.

I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessarycondition for knowledge.

It sometimes requires ignorance and arrogance to know something for sure.

Because you're always learning, the chief lesson remains: you still know nothing.

Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.

If they're friends, then they've got your back . . . whether you're there or not. Friends won't "forget" about you.

She knows her timing, always knows. The time to strike or the time to starve. Her eyes as a clock, she watches she waits she learns, and in the second she blinks, she changes her mind just like that.

The misconception of something being a certainty sometimes gets to me until I remember we can change most things consciously.