Certainty Quotes

The only unchangable certainty in life is that nothing is unchangable or certain.

Such sober certainty of waking bliss.

In the absence of certainty, instinct is all you can follow.

Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.

Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty.

A man can reach into anything and turn it to his cause. It's not want, or desire, just certainty. Only be assured that whatever you reach into will reach into you in turn.

In their leaders, advisers, and experts, people much prefer overconfidence, total certainty, to any kind of doubt.

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.

If ruling our world stems from developing certainty in our sanity, how do we discover it? The Shambhala teachings instruct us to "put our mind of fearfulness in the cradle of loving-kindnes."

To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life.

I know nothing but the certainty of my own ignorance.

Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it.

God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts.

If we get total certainty, we get … bored out of our minds. So, God, in Her infinite wisdom, gave us a second human need, which is uncertainty. We need variety. We need surprise.

Your imagination is ten times more potent than your willpower. Unleashed, it provides a sense of certainty and tenacious vision that goes far beyond any limitation of the past.

A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.

I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.

The sun meets not the springing bud that stretches towards him with half the certainty that God, the source of all good, communicates himself to the soul that longs to partake of him.

Faith to me is having absolute certainty that God is in control of my life and that He has my best interests at heart.

While denial leads to certainty, it is only the certainty of death. This is true for individuals and also for civilizations.

Knowledge breeds doubt, not certainty, And the more we know the more uncertain we become.

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.

In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity.

Action based on hope just felt better than the paralysis of certainty.

In a world of moral certainty, the unthinkable becomes permissible.

One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.

Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.

Certainty is a cruel mindset.

The things of another world being distant, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconvenience, we must frequently revolve their certainty and importance.

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

I have no talent for certainty.

Certainty, not data, is knowledge.

He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.

Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise.

It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.

Neither the intensity of your feelings nor the certainty of your convictions is any assurance that you are right.

it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime

My only complaint with 'Dickie' Bird is that he requires a degree of certainty that is almost neurotic; like the man who has to keep going to the front door to make certain that he's locked it.

The only certainty about following the crowd is that you will all get there together.

People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs.

Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.

There is a call to spiritual perseverance. A call not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately, knowing with certainty that God will never be defeated.

It has been said, and perhaps with truth, that the conclusions of Political Economy partake more of the certainty of the stricter sciences than those of most of the other branches of human knowledge.

This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence.

It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.

The devil's happy when the critics run you off.