If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“It isn't the light you want to recover, it’s the certainty that there is only darkness” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, no matter how many lifetimes you live. — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
“What can you do with a person who says that he is absolutely uncertain about everything, and that he is absolutely certain… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Defeasible beliefs provide the provisional certainty necessary to navigate an uncertain world.” — John Brockman Copy Share Image
“When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The only result my father got for his money was the certainty that his son had laid faultlessly the foundation of a… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You can't deny that there's something between us." "No. There is. When I saw you today--I didn't know I'd been waiting for… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Know for a certainty that if men understood how terrible is even one solitary sin, they would rather be cast into a… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
This surpassed the fear of death. Death would be a mercy if it would make the feeling stop, the uncontrollable panic mingling… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still… — Cameron Mackintosh Copy Share Image
“What then, had I discovered? That there is nobody so duplicitous as oneself? That certainty is nothing but unreasonable belief? That there… — A.J.West Copy Share Image
The abuse of the veto power has become so predictable that frequently resolutions are not even tabled because of the certainty of… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another's word for it. We need to… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
“Everything and everyone will die, and more than that, there won't be any evidence that anyone was ever here at all. There… — Adam Hines Copy Share Image
The experience I'm talking about has given me one certainty: the salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The only difference between causation and the value is that the word "cause" implies absolute certainty whereas the implied meaning of "value"… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“1:145-146 NO SURE SENSE Say: No one knows the unseen except God (27:65). With that text I put this question: How do… — Bahauddin Copy Share Image
Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Was this normalcy-predictable patterns, the certainty of doing the same thing everyday? Because if so, normalcy was about to make me freak… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface. — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
In teaching there can be too much emphasis on certainty and a proper appreciation of uncertainty is to be encouraged. — Dennis Lindley Copy Share Image
Don't play with someone's feelings, you may win the game but you will surely lose someone. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gauss replied, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, that he had them long ago, all he was… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
“There was the anxiety that one day would not follow the next, combined with the certainty that it would.” — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming… — Alan Bullock Copy Share Image
“There's something almost weightless about our world, I think, something fleeting and insubstantial that's ill at ease with any pretence of certainty.” — Deirdre Madden Copy Share Image
We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly. — Bob McDonnell Copy Share Image
Large waves of love and romance are nice, but all waves of strong feeling, with their inherent illusion of certainty, must eventually… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Mississippi farmers and ranchers continually deal with factors that can mean disaster, which is why they look for certainty and flexibility in… — Cindy Hyde-Smith Copy Share Image
Help me lord to accept that I cant possibly know everything, and to rest secure in the certainty that you have revealed… — Bible Copy Share Image
A Christian is not a skeptic. A Christian is a person with a burning heart, a heart set aflame with certainty of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
