To discover, or recover, the sense of religious certainty one must worship. — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
I believe faith is not certainty but the courage to live with uncertainty. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp. — William James Copy Share Image
The government will not support a nine-week work year. That I can say with certainty. — Pierre Poilievre Copy Share Image
One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself. — Morarji Desai Copy Share Image
Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up. — David Foster Copy Share Image
“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me want to dream.” — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Certainty is the enemy of mankind. If you're certain about everything, you have the Inquisition, you have Nazis and you have -… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Death is, perhaps, the only certainty in life that still manages to catch us off guard. And” — Dee Oliver Copy Share Image
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
There is a kind of certainty that seems to characterize Jared Smith's best work, an understanding about place and the flow of… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
The occurrence of any event where the chances are beyond one in ten followed by 50 zeros is an event which we… — Emile Borel Copy Share Image
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Passion. It can be used to describe the beauty of an earth-shaking meeting between two people, but it isn't just that. It's… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to… — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Never compromise your today for your tomorrow that is not certain, make the best of everyday you have to see, despite what… — Blaze Olamiday Copy Share Image
“When you stop trying to force the Bible to be something it's not--static, perspicacious, certain, absolute--then you're free to revel in what… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Man's quest for knowledge is an expanding series whose limit is infinity, but philosophy seeks to attain that limit at one blow,… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The court was unable to rule on all circumstances in which nuclear weapons might be used, and it said in view of… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind. Difficult or easy, the Buddha said… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And when I hear it said that God is good and He will pardon us, and then see that men cease not… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
I'm not against religion in the sense that I feel I can't tolerate it, but I think written into the rubric of… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute… — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
How incredibly far our lives drift from where we knew with all certainty they would go. How little today resembles what yesterday… — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
When two people meet, as long as there is any form of rapport maintained, the person with the most certainty will eventually… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress. — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature. — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
