Certainty Quotes

I'm opposed to censure, .. Whether or not one will be permitted, it's under discussion. It isn't ruled out, but it's not a dead-bang certainty either.

Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.

The underlying aim of practice . .is to create certainty through the development of high-quality listening.

I am about to die. It is September 11, and every cell in my body is acutely aware of my looming demise. The certainty of it. The inevitability. Not years from now, not weeks nor days. Moments.

Statistics were magic like this: they could tell you with near-certainty that a thing would occur, without a hint of when or where.

All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them.

Was this normalcy-predictable patterns, the certainty of doing the same thing everyday? Because if so, normalcy was about to make me freak out and start screaming.

No one can forecast the economy with certainty.

Between certainty and the real, an ancient enmity.

Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it's not arrogant.

I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden.

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.

The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.

I don't believe anything. I only know some things to a greater degree of certainty than others.

Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when the world doesn't fit.

The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.

For investor confidence, it is important that there is certainty about the future of Ireland in E.U.

Discovering, for example, that as witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you are or have been. [p. 65]

Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe.

Only years of practice will teach you the mysteries and bold certainty of a real gardener, who treads at random, yet tramples on nothing.

Maybe that's what is means to be human . . . forever questioning our certainties.

The difference between religion and science is the difference between thoughtless certainty and thoughtful doubt.

Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition; adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and certainty.

Not all is certainty in our world, Karigan. If it were there'd be no opportunity for faith; and then it would be a very dull existence.

Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.

Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to eternal quackery.

His quiet certainty made the ground beneath my feet feel solid. Like someday everything might actually be okay.

There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.

All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.

Doubt is long-winded. Certainty is brief.

We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.

The best kind of men have a certainty in themselves that isn't done in when countered by a certainty in their women, and they are much adored.

What I need most of all is certainty.

Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties

What I most wanted even at that early age, was to capture and hold the truth, with the certainty and love that it brings.

It was one thing, after all, to know his feelings for Amanda hadn't changed; it was another thing entirely to face the future with the certainty that they never would.

We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.

The universe only gives you what you can handle, so trust that whatever is happening to you is exactly what you need. Just trust. Have certainty!

The first indication that we are killing our dreams is lack of time. The second indication of the death of our dreams is certainty. The third indication that our dreams are dead is peace.

The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have.

Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.

Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.

Do not lose hope; St. Joseph also experienced moments of difficulty, but he never lost faith and was able to overcome them, in the certainty that God never abandons us.

I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

A Christian is not a skeptic. A Christian is a person with a burning heart, a heart set aflame with certainty of the resurrection.

Those willing to trade freedom for certainty are certain to find the cure worse than the ailment.

Maybe under all that guilt and certainty that he couldn't love again, he still wanted me. I would have liked to have found out. But I didn't have the time. Instead, I punched him.

Our hope is a certainty based on the truths that God is in complete control of our universe and that He loves us.

Certainty and similar states of ‘knowing what we know’ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason.