Certainty Quotes · Page 26

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose…

— A.C. Grayling

Certainty, and the innovation that thrives in a climate of certainty, are key to progress.

— Andrew R. Wheeler

God knows the future, you don't. So stop worrying and make wise decisions. Trust him with the results.

— Anonymous

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

— Ashley Montagu

There is only one thing in this world which is constant. It's Change whether Time or People.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of…

— Chief Seattle

Not everyone is trustworthy, but if you trust God, then you will be secure knowing that God is with you when dealing…

— Anonymous

“The Conviction Principle Convey certainty with words, eye contact, posture, and tone of voice.”

— Bill McGowan

“There was this certainty inside me, and it destroyed everything else. The moment Ferdinand touched me, I knew that I was going…

— Paul Auster

The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the…

— John McCain

Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you look around the world and I can tell you right now that the majority of the planet is focused on…

— Tony Robbins

To achieve policy stability and certainty, we need to establish a meaningful price on carbon and cut the billions of dollars spent…

— Paul Polman

It's true that a dangerous combination of certainty and ignorance often shows up around sex and consent on campus. People on all…

— Vanessa Grigoriadis

And it would be a spare life he would be certain to lead as a schoolteacher in some urban location. But he…

— Michael Ondaatje

“There is no possibility I have made a mistake. Everything that happens as a result of my actions is one of calculation…

— Adolf Hitler

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

— Anonymous

I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be…

— Alain de Botton

“Fanaticism can often be a normalized phenomenon, and the unwritten recipe suggests that it starts and ends with absolute certainty. If you…

— Criss Jami

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

“When I was young, I lacked certainty, too,” he says. “I have the certainty, now, of not needing certainty. I have the…

— T. Scott McLeod

God is in the mountains. Impassive, immovable, jagged giants, separating the celestial from the terrestrial with eternal diagonal certainty. As if silently…

— Russell Brand

“Each moment of loss, she has come to believe, contains within it the possibility of a new life. When the unimaginable happens,…

— Christina Baker Kline

Only trust in God can transform doubts into certainty, evil into good, night into radiant dawn.

— Pope Francis

No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as…

— Charles Caleb Colton

In an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty, the one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge.

— Ikujiro Nonaka

It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life…

— Clifford D. Simak

It was one thing, after all, to know his feelings for Amanda hadn't changed; it was another thing entirely to face the…

— Nicholas Sparks

One of the worst feeling in the world is having to doubt something you thought was unquestionable.

— Anonymous

A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.

— Virginia Woolf

Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how…

— Albert Camus

You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith.

— Paulo Coelho

We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.

— Max Lerner

“To overcome our addiction to certainty, we don’t need to attack the static (or ignore our cravings for it). Rather, we can…

— Vironika Tugaleva

There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and…

— Jack Vance

The fraudster's greatest liability is the certainty that the fraud is too clever to be detected.

— Louis J. Freeh

it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime

— Michel Foucault

If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives.

— Richard P. Feynman