Certainty Quotes · Page 12

Let's make sure that there is certainty during uncertain times in our economy.

— George W. Bush

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

— Leonhard Euler

Between certainty and the real, an ancient enmity.

— Jane Hirshfield

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

— Carlos Fuentes

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

— Ashley Montagu

The only things of certainty are Death and Taxes.

— Benjamin Franklin

Leadership used to be about creating certainty. Now it is about leading uncertainty

— Anonymous

“No scientific theory can claim absolutely certainty.”

— David Christian

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a…

— Vaclav Havel

There's two things in life you cant take back... Words and Bullets. So make sure you hit what you aim at and…

— Nishan Panwar

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

— Piers Anthony

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Julian Jaynes

“The appearance of an angel from heaven could add nothing to the certainty of the declarations he has already put into our…

— John Newton

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

— Eugenie de Guerin

Biblical hope is not wishful thinking or an optimistic outlook; rather, it is a confident expectation based on the certainty of God's…

— David Wilkerson

The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the…

— Anonymous

“I don’t know what to do,” he said. “No harm in that. I’ve never known what to do,” said Rincewind with hollow…

— Terry Pratchett

A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and…

— Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

“I breathe deeply, and certainty enters into me like light, like a piece of science, and curious music seems to hum inside…

— Leif Enger

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty…

— Wislawa Szymborska

Fundamentalists believe that we don't believe in anything. In their view of the world, they are in possession of absolute certainties, while…

— Salman Rushdie

When we find our core certainty within, then we no longer look for certainty outside. The unfathomable nature of the ever-changing world…

— Deepak Chopra

"What is the meaning of life?" This question has no answer except in the history of how it came to be asked.…

— Julian Jaynes

“Man … has the wish not to die. This wish is originally identical with the instinct of self-preservation. … Subsequently, … this…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits…

— Saint Augustine

Organisms [...] are directed and limited by their past. They must remain imperfect in their form and function, and to that extent…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“You must not face it. Because it is a – certainty it has to be forgotten. One cannot – must not –…

— Winston Graham

God is bigger than time, dates, and appointments. He wants you to move through this day with a quiet heart, an inward…

— Roy Lessin

But there were other, vaguer, harder-to-pin-down feelings, like: a pit in the stomach that means something is either really good or really…

— Pseudonymous Bosch

Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the…

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

— Christopher Moore

Trying to obtain certainty is the problem not the solution.

— Sharon Davies

“The possibility of something is better than the certainty of nothing.”

— Sandor L.S.G. Marai

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

— Cullen Murphy

“Mortals live with lack of certainty- except for Death.”

— Lee Monroe

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

— Bernard Crick

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke