Certainty Quotes

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

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

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

I brought Hassan’s son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty

I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.

We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul.

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.

We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion

The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.

[An artist] will sooner and with more certainty, establish the character of skeletons, than the most learned anatomist, whose eye has not been accustomed to seize on every peculiarity.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.

Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that youve grasped the truth.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.

The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.

The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform.

Even the stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found?

Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it.

Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.

Let's make sure that there is certainty during uncertain times in our economy.

To believe with certainty, we must begin with doubting.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.

How is it that one rails against that which is nearly a certainty?

But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.

It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works.

We have to be mindful that there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which is us and our allies.

There is no certainty of what will or won't be in our lives. All we have is this moment. The last is gone, the next isn't here yet.

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

Although we may trust God's promises for life after death and the certainty of a heavenly home, we must still face the reality of death.

As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.

Even if one's head were to be suddenly cut off, he should be able to do one more action with certainty.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.

When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.

A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.

Although I was first drawn to math and science by the certainty they promised, today I find the unanswered questions and the unexpected connections at least as attractive.

God's heart calls to our hearts, inviting us to come out of ourselves, to forsake our human certainties, to trust in him and, by following his example, to make ourselves a gift of unbounded love.

I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.

Only trust in God can transform doubts into certainty, evil into good, night into radiant dawn.

...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.