“Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
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
“So many it seems, have made it their life's goal to bask in the ignorance of their certainty.” — John Chaplin Copy Share Image
I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“...but the loss of a memory, like the omission of a phrase during reading, rather than making for uncertainty, can lead to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Et Tu, Babe' was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
“Deeply convinced of the reality of the divine will, he (Lincoln) had no patience at all with any who were perfectly sure… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
“is known as a certainty that there exists an unimaginably powerful creator and sustainer of reality, and of you in particular. This… — Dean Radin Copy Share Image
In philosophical terms, the opposite of rationalism is not irrationalism but empiricism, that is, a willingness to form beliefs on the basis… — John Quiggin Copy Share Image
We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets - and have only the rudiments of a system… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
EPA takes its Clean Air Act responsibilities seriously and is committed to providing certainty to state and industry partners. We will not… — Andrew R. Wheeler Copy Share Image
One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Biblical hope is not wishful thinking or an optimistic outlook; rather, it is a confident expectation based on the certainty of God's… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“Man … has the wish not to die. This wish is originally identical with the instinct of self-preservation. … Subsequently, … this… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Organisms [...] are directed and limited by their past. They must remain imperfect in their form and function, and to that extent… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“You must not face it. Because it is a – certainty it has to be forgotten. One cannot – must not –… — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
Since I found that one could make a case shadow from a three-dimensional thing, any object whatsoever - just as the projecting… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
"What is the meaning of life?" This question has no answer except in the history of how it came to be asked.… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
I do not have easy days at home now and I drift between fear and helplessness in sunny rooms where it is… — Georg Trakl Copy Share Image
... I feel certain that his tale is true. Feeling that certainty, I befriend him. As long as that certainty shall last,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
![“Man … has the wish not to die. This wish is originally identical with the instinct of self-preservation. … Subsequently, … this primary negative wish becomes the positive wish for a life, and a better life, after death. … [T]his wish involves the further wish for the certainty of its fulfilment…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/59d/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_better-life_man-has-the-wish-not-to-die-this-wish-is_2761847.png)
![“Organisms [...] are directed and limited by their past. They must remain imperfect in their form and function, and to that extent unpredictable since they are not optimal machines. We cannot know their future with certainty, if only because a myriad of quirky functional shifts lie within the…” quote by Stephen Jay Gould](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/92a/stephen-jay-gould-885_adapted_organisms-are-directed-and-limited-by-th_660291.jpg)
