Certainty Quotes

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.

It's good to have some certainty in life, even if it's only that I'm in deep trouble.

Were we able to extract from any man a complete answer to the question, "What comes into your mind when you think about God?" we might predict with certainty the future of that man.

We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come.

CREDIT supposes specific and permanent funds for the punctual payment of interest, with a moral certainty of a final redemption of the principal.

VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.

she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.

I do know something. Just not with any certainty.

I'm sure one of the frustrations of being a Western enthusiast of Japanese food and culture is you're confronted every day with the absolute certainty that you will die ignorant.

About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box.

I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding.

The only things of certainty are Death and Taxes.

If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.

There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.

What men really want is not knowledge but certainty.

All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.

The other guys are selling certainty. Not me. I'm on the corner with doubt.

Our certainty that angels right now witness how we are walking through life should mightily influence the decisions we make. God is watching, and His angels are interested spectators too.

We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.

Look at the chaos of European history. Europeans cannot believe in certainty. But Americans believe in certainty. Americans think this can go on like this forever. Just as it is. No change.

The world is certainty a sudden place.

La volupte unique et supre" me de l'amour g|"t dans la certitude de faire le mal. The unique, supreme pleasure of love consists in the certainty of doing evil.

I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better.

Knowing the precies answers is not as crucial as the certainty that the answers do, in fact, exist.

The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul.

Faith does not rely on knowing anything with certainty. It requires only the courage to accept that whatever happens is for the highest good.

Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.

There is certainty in a ring. The non-ending, the non-beginning. The ongoing. The way it holds on to you not because it's fastened or stretched or adhered. It holds on because it fits.

I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death.

In teaching there can be too much emphasis on certainty and a proper appreciation of uncertainty is to be encouraged.

Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous.

Deep down in everyone was sorrow and certainty.

Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written.

There is always a pleasure in unravelling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty.

Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity.

American businesses are looking for are certainty and executive orders don't really get them that.

My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.

Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.

The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.

Who is so brave and so noble that they could hurl themselves at infinity without any question, with complete trust and complete certainty that that infinity will destroy them forever?

Sometimes I think death is a greater awareness than life. Life gives us the illusion of immortality, whereas death gives us the certainty of immortality

Don't try and understand this with your mind. There will be no absolute knowing, no certainty in these thoughts and philosophies and ideas.

[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.

With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of technological leapfrog game, speed helps people think they are catching up.

To discover, or recover, the sense of religious certainty one must worship.

Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.

A barrell full of certainties won't roll very far.

The truth that I know for sure is that I may have an opinion, but I do not know the truth, and the other thing I know for sure is that certainty is the root of all ignorance and the root of all evil.