Certainty Quotes

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

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

Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away... a bigger fool than when he came to it.

Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.

I believe any decline would lock in a Fed increase with some certainty.

What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.

No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.

One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone.

Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.

Subatomic particles do not exist but rather show 'tendencies to exist', and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times and in definite ways, but rather show 'tendencies to occur'.

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.

Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.

Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.

Once you get it into your head that somebody is controlling events, you can interpret everything in that light and find no reasonable certainty anywhere.

There has to be some certainty about who the leader is before the summer break.

We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.

Certainty sees things in restrictive, protective, aggressive ways, and thus isn't seeing at all.

Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.

The one certainty in tiger tracks is: follow them long enough and you will eventually arrive at a tiger, unless the tiger arrives at you first.

both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold

Moral certainty is intellectual immorality

Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic.

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.

Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

The fraudster's greatest liability is the certainty that the fraud is too clever to be detected.

Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.

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.

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

To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.

Everything had been based on a kind of certainty, a sense of man at the center of things, a sense of order and hierarchy. And suddenly, almost simultaneously, extraordinary discoveries are made.

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

It is certain because it is impossible. -Certum est quia impossibile

The only time a dead certainty applies is in a dream world.

If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.

If you are driven by certainty you can't grow. If you are driven by certainty if somebody messes with you, you can get very intense, even violent, depending upon the person's personality.

I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.

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

Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain.

It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties.

Life is ever evolving. The only certainty is change.

I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place.

Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or the seasons.

Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence.

We do know, with absolute certainty, that Saddam Hussein is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapon.

Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.

ritual lulls our fear of disorder with the certainty of order.

I will repeat a technique until it is mastered, no matter when that will be. One certainty though: it will be.

It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.

Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A government and a society that silences those who dissent is one that has lost its way.

Place 5 percent to 10 percent of your total assets in gold bullion and selected gold and silver coins. No one knows with certainty whether the coming depression will be inflationary or deflationary.