Top 1200 Certainty Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I never cling on to hope or certainty. They're the enemies of peace.

I believe faith is not certainty but the courage to live with uncertainty.

If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.

One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

The need for certainty is the greatest disease the Mind faces

Vast ills have followed a belief in certainty.

If there's one crime for which there has to be a certainty of punishment, it is gun violence.

The certainty of our salvation rests on the character of God.

both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold

Doubt is long-winded. Certainty is brief.

You can safely appeal to the UN in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

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

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt. Precisely because we keep questioning everything, especially our own premises, we are always ready to improve our knowledge. Therefore a good scientist is never ‘certain’. Lack of certainty is precisely what makes conclusions more reliable than the conclusions of those who are certain: because the good scientist will be ready to shift to a different point of view if better elements of evidence, or novel arguments emerge. Therefore certainty is not only something of no use, but is in fact damaging, if we value reliability.

Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

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

Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.

Claiming certainty without corroborating evidence is stupid.

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

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps.

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

This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime!

It is the certainty that you are about to recover, that brings results, not the hope.

[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.

I know nothing but the certainty of my own ignorance.

You want to be a hero? Learn to create certainty in the face of fear.

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

Certainty abolishes hope, and robs us of renewal.

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

Through patience and certainty, leadership in the religion is obtained.

The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.

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

If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer

Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

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

How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?

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

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

As a businessman, I know that businesses need certainty.

I do know something. Just not with any certainty.

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

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

Life is ever evolving. The only certainty is change.

The integrated automotive group of Volkswagen and Porsche is a certainty.

One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

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

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

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

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

Deep down in everyone was sorrow and certainty.

Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change

People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs.

Nothing will deter crime but the certainty of punishment.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.