Certainty Quotes

Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.

It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty.

Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.

But 'the physical level of rigor' is higher on certainty than the logical one, since reproducible experiments are more reliable than anybody's, be it Hilbert's, Einstein's or Gödel's intuition.

Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.

No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.

All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race.

The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.

We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty is American.

You want to be a hero? Learn to create certainty in the face of fear.

I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps.

Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.

We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.

...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.

I'm through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me.... If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by that fact alone and with absolute certainty that Tolstoy will find it bad, and vice versa.

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

So trust the process of your life unfolding, and know with certainty, through the peaks and valleys of your journey, that your soul rests safe and secure in the arms of God.

Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.

The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

People always tell me with absolute certainty that they don't trust themselves.

The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.

Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.

Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.

Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.

The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks.

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.

It is said to await certainty is to await eternity.

[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

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

Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.

People have a need for certainty - and that need for certainty is in every human being, certainty that you can avoid pain, certainty that you can at least be comfortable. It's a survival instinct.

Feed and strengthen your body. Fear is physical. When you lift weights or go for a sprint, that energy flows back into your body and restores you to certainty.

Certainty becomes you.

Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.

Know with certainty that there is a God, and that there exists a world beyond this one - the world of souls.

You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith.

In the midst of the flurry - clarity. In the midst of the storm - calm. In the midst of divided interests - certainty. In the many roads - a certain choice.

If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.

More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.

In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being unsure.

Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.

The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

Just because someone seems to have more certainty, doesn't mean they're right.

One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.

It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose.

Living by faith isn't living with certainty. It's trusting God in spite of unanswered questions and unresolved doubts.

Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . .