Certainty Quotes

Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

I believe faith is not certainty but the courage to live with uncertainty.

Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change

Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.

I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties.

The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation.

Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.

When man thinks in self-conscious submission to the voluntary revelation of the self-sufficient God, he has therewith the only possible ground of certainty for his knowledge.

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

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

A great advantage of X-ray analysis as a method of chemical structure analysis is its power to show some totally unexpected and surprising structure with, at the same time, complete certainty.

One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.

Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.

It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.

Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.

Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty. (10)

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made

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

Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.

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.

The scientist believes in proof without certainty.

In an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty, the one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge.

The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life.

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong.

Vast ills have followed a belief in certainty.

If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.

The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system. The revolution provides him with his opium.

The only certainty is that we never know what tomorrow holds. We live for today, life is short, so let's enjoy it together while we can.

One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.

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.

The present is the only reality and the only certainty.

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.

What can we say with certainty?

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.

I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie.

One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided.

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.

Certainty is an unrealistic and unattainable ideal

If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'

The more I see, the less I know.

Joy adapts and changes, but it always endures, even as a flicker of light born of our personal certainty that, when everything is said and done, we are infinitely loved.

Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory? Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty.

The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty,and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.