Certainty Quotes · Page 17

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

— Benjamin Franklin

Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.

— Ellen Langer

I know nothing but the certainty of my own ignorance.

— Socrates

“I know that I do not know, and uncertainty, certainly, is the cruelest of words.”

— Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Doubter wants proof which contributes nothing to her faith.”

— Toba Beta

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

— Voltaire

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

— Anonymous

I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.

— Ian Mckellen

I can't promise you that I can take all of your problems away, but I can assure you that you will not…

— Anonymous

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

— Jodi Picoult

We are all of us invented. We are all of us cobbled together from cartilage and dust. Few of us know with…

— Steven Dietz

“They weren't looking at him as if he was their only hope. They were looking at him as if he was their…

— Terry Pratchett

“We cling to our ideas about the world, feeling insecure without them. It's why we sometimes pretend we're certain when we're not,…

— Eran Dror

“Perhaps we are doomed if we press on . . . but I know for a certainty that we are doomed if we turn back.”

— Anonymous

There is no certainty of what will or won't be in our lives. All we have is this moment. The last is…

— Curt Mega

I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.

— John Patrick Shanley

I'm a big proponent of playing all sports when you're growing up. I think they all help you from a competitiveness standpoint…

— Gordon Hayward

In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one…

— Jules Verne

“To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in…

— Bertrand Russell

“While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in going. Like his predecessor, the…

— Philip Rieff

We all return. It is this certainty that gives meaning to life and it does not make the slightest difference whether or…

— Gustav Mahler

Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to…

— Bertrand Russell

Our culture is becoming more hostile to the gospel. This trend may be more established in Australia than in the USA, but…

— Mark Dever

It seems to be very hard for people to live with riddles or to let them live, although one would think that…

— Anonymous

...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair…

— John Piper

There have been times when the church seemed afraid, but she is no longer. Analyze, dissect, use your microscope or your spectrum…

— Henry Adams

Senator apparently having overcome his loyalty to his wife and father. [Ted] Cruz finally came out and endorsed Donald Trump writing on…

— Chris Hayes

After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Could I have made mistakes? One does not build cities if one is guided by doubt. But can one govern in absolute…

— Andrew Ryan

Those of us who work in this field see a developing potential for nearly a total control of human emotional status, mental…

— Anonymous

[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as…

— Anonymous

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

— Blaise Pascal

Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Vast ills have followed a belief in certainty.

— Kenneth Arrow

“...but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

— Benjamin Franklin

The only certainties that don't break down are those acquired in prayer.

— Reinhold Schneider

The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.

— Dean Koontz

“If you do not know what you want, it is a certainty you will never get it.”

— J. Helen Elza

Having a relationship based on lies and secrets is destined to fail.

— Karran Ramsammy