Certainty Quotes

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.

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. . . .

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.

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

When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty.

If He had not known with certainty that He would be Master over sin and that out of evil would evolve the noblest display of His own glory, He would not have permitted it to enter the world.

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty and both - precision and certainty are impossible to attain.

Dialogue starts with the willingness to challenge our own thinking, to recognize that any certainty we have is, at best, a hypothesis about the world.

There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

Indecision is fatal. It is better to make a wrong decision than build up a habit of indecision. If you're wallowing in indecision, you certainty can't act - and action is the basis of success

I, retired in prayer, will always be with you, and together we will move ahead with the Lord in certainty. The Lord is victorious.

Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.

We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.

Educators must resist the quest for certainty. If there were certainty there would be no scientific advancement. So it is with morals and patriotism.

Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.

You can safely appeal to the UN in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

The only certainty is that there is no certainty.

That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have.

One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, Right. Now I understand how this is done.

Certainty abolishes hope, and robs us of renewal.

In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.

I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.

At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Change is the investor's only certainty.

If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal.

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

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.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

If the Bible is uniquely and inerrantly inspired, then we have certainty; we may know real truth about God

Certainty ends inquiry.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the innumerate into a dumb acquiescence.

But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not terminate in an actual experience.

A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses.

The only certainty is uncertainty

I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.

Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

I never cling on to hope or certainty. They're the enemies of peace.

Uncertainty would be the only certainty there's, and realizing how to stay with insecurity could be the only protection

There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.

Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.