American businesses are looking for are certainty and executive orders don't really get them that. — Eric Bolling Copy Share Image
No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The Holy Ghost is not a Sceptic, and He has not inscribed in our hearts uncertain opinions, but, rather, affirmations of the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Although we may trust God's promises for life after death and the certainty of a heavenly home, we must still face the… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I put heavy weight on certainty. It's not risky to buy securities at a fraction of what they're worth. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul… — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
-the soul's certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Good applied science in medicine, as in physics, requires a high degree of certainty about the basic facts at hand, and especially… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“It is only charlatans who are certain. We know nothing of first principles. It is truly extravagant to define God, angels, and… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal…… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“In a race between danger and indecision, the difference between life and death comes down to confidence. Faith in our abilities, certainty… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
I think I developed a culture of healthy skepticism of claims of certainty on any side of the aisle. A sort of… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
Few Christians understand the concept of eternal rewards, even thought the Lord dedicated a great deal of His precious time on earth… — Larry Burkett Copy Share Image
To the last we have learned nothing. In all of us, deep down, there seems to be something granite and unteachable. No… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
We say that we often see animals in our dreams, but we forget that almost always we are ourselves animals therein, deprived… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you… — David Auburn Copy Share Image
“They certainty of those with whom we disagree (...) never looks justified to us, and frequently looks odious. As often as not,… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
Living with doubt ... is almost always more profitable than living with certainty. People don't like doubt, so they pay money and… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
A man can reach into anything and turn it to his cause. It's not want, or desire, just certainty. Only be assured… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
The only thing that anyone can diagnose, with any certainty, by looking at a fat person, is their own level of stereotype… — Marilyn Wann Copy Share Image
In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In essence we have become addicted to the certainty, sureness or sense of security that our faith provides — Leo Booth Copy Share Image
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live. — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
“Power breeds certainty, and certainty has no clout against the unpredictable, whether you are playing poker or running a country.” — David McRaney Copy Share Image
To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education. — William Glasser Copy Share Image
I can't just put myself out on a limb anymore, I don't want to take risks anymore, I want certainty. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We never have 100 percent certainty. We never have it. If you wait until you have 100 percent certainty, something bad is… — Gordon R. Sullivan Copy Share Image
We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“Hold your beliefs lightly.’ Certainty is not necessarily a friend of sanity, although it is often mistaken for it.” — The School of Life Copy Share Image
