Certainty Quotes

Certainty Quote of the day

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

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

This process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of President will seldom fall to the lot of any many who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.

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

Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight. It is not willingness to know, but willingness to DO (obey) God's will that brings certainty.

Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.

People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty

No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force.

Claiming certainty without corroborating evidence is stupid.

Certainty is the enemy of change.

I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way.

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.

Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.

Nothing can trouble you but your own imagination.

There are no means of attaining faith and certainty except through the Qur'an.

Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security

I will go on quietly and slowly, but I will go on firmly, and with a certainty of success.

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.

We can bear up under everything, if we have only the certainty that the monster Hitler with his insatiable bloodletting and plundering will have committed soon his last shameful deed.

If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.

God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

Real dialogue is where two or more people become willing to suspend their certainty in each other's presence.

I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty.

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.

A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.

When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

The only thing that anyone can diagnose, with any certainty, by looking at a fat person, is their own level of stereotype and prejudice toward fat people.

Through patience and certainty, leadership in the religion is obtained.

As for the accusation of intellectual pride, surely the boot is on the other foot. Atheists don't claim to know anything with certainty -- it's the believers who know it all.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

We share in the certainty that people labeled with mental illness are first and above all, human beings. Our lives are precious and are of infinite value.

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

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

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

As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less likely. Science can say nothing with absolute certainty.

People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence.

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

It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.