Certainty Quotes · Page 11

One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.

— Marvin Minsky

“More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.   -Francois”

— Loretta Lost

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

— Steve Hackett

The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties

— H. L. Mencken

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

— Ashleigh Brilliant

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

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“I don’t know whether there are numbers. And you?”

— Julien Torma

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

— Ibn Taymiyyah

... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.

— Mark Twain

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

— Michael Lewis

A fighter in his prime needs to stay active. A fighter, who doesn't have certainty when he's going to fight again, it's…

— Daniel Jacobs

“Others may not understand your joy and contentment because of your certainty about who you are and why you exist. Don't waste…

— Assegid Habtewold

Follow your heart with no doubt. If it's right, you'll succeed. If it's wrong, you'll learn.

— Anonymous

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

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Bertrand Russell

We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.

— William Deresiewicz

Whoever builds his faith exclusively on demonstrative proofs and deductive arguments, builds a faith on which it is impossible to rely. For…

— Ibn Arabi

Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding…

— Thomas Aquinas

[Donald Trump] is talking a lot about redoing trade and that's the area that is getting globalists nervous. Number one, they want…

— Maria Bartiromo

There is a big difference between wanting to say you wrote a book, and actually writing one. Many people think they want…

— Scott Berkun

There are many paths to enlightenment. Some of us who have expanded to a degree of illumination have thereafter preached the dogmatic…

— Thaddeus Golas

EPA takes its Clean Air Act responsibilities seriously and is committed to providing certainty to state and industry partners. We will not…

— Andrew R. Wheeler

One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential…

— John Paul Stevens

I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world…

— Anonymous

I think uncertainty is good for things. Certainty breeds complacency and complacency means that you just sit somewhere in your nice little…

— Stephen King

To say that one need art, or politics, that incorporate ambiguity and contradiction is not to say that one then stops recognizing…

— William Kentridge

“In the nine years since [Robert] Harris’s novel [Conclave] was published our culture has, if anything, become more enamored with certainty, not…

— Junot Díaz

Throughout history civilian populations and political rulers have talked of peace. We have never been free of war. The soldier, whose profession…

— Barry Goldwater

There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking… It is…

— Thomas Pynchon

One of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling…

— Thomas Sowell

Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might…

— Bertrand Russell

Since I found that one could make a case shadow from a three-dimensional thing, any object whatsoever - just as the projecting…

— Marcel Duchamp

Safety and certainty in oil lie in variety, and variety alone.

— Winston Churchill

“If the opposite of certainty is doubt, humility must lie somewhere between the two,”

— Ron Suskind

“Faith does not grow in the house of certainty.”

— WM. PAUL YOUNG

“Uncertainty is the only certainty in this world.”

— Andrew Gross

No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.

— Leon Wieseltier

Certainty is not at hand I can't keep my eyes shut. You talk not to listen...

— Kittie

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

— Tom Hodgkinson

Change is inevitable, but a broken heart is preventable!

— Anonymous