Certainty Quotes · Page 5

“Chance is life's only certainty.”

— Mickey Wyte

Certainty ends inquiry.

— Jacob Bronowski

Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.

— B. W. Powe

[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The more I see, the less I know.

— Michael Franti

I have no talent for certainty.

— Jane Austen

Doubt cannot override a certainty.

— The Talmud

“To be free is to lose one' certainty.”

— Nina George

... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.

— William James

The government will not support a nine-week work year. That I can say with certainty.

— Pierre Poilievre

The other guys are selling certainty. Not me. I'm on the corner with doubt.

— Bill Maher

Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.

— Rebecca West

I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.

— Bret Harte

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!

— Sophocles

“If in the moment of doing you felt clarity, you felt certainty, then why feel regret later?”

— Yaa Gyasi

Broken today, healed tomorrow. There's nothing mysterious about how life works, it just goes on.

— Blossom

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that…

— Charles Baudelaire

Follow your heart with no doubt. If it's right, you'll succeed. If it's wrong, you'll learn.

— Anonymous

It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties.

— Christopher Hitchens

Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.

— Bertrand Russell

We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.

— William Deresiewicz

The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding…

— Thomas Aquinas

[Donald Trump] is talking a lot about redoing trade and that's the area that is getting globalists nervous. Number one, they want…

— Maria Bartiromo

There is a big difference between wanting to say you wrote a book, and actually writing one. Many people think they want…

— Scott Berkun

There are many paths to enlightenment. Some of us who have expanded to a degree of illumination have thereafter preached the dogmatic…

— Thaddeus Golas

Fundamentalists believe that we don't believe in anything. In their view of the world, they are in possession of absolute certainties, while…

— Salman Rushdie

When we find our core certainty within, then we no longer look for certainty outside. The unfathomable nature of the ever-changing world…

— Deepak Chopra

The truth has no need to be uttered to be made apparent, and ... one may perhaps gather it with more certainty,…

— Marcel Proust

“The church's ... certainty is bound to certain norms and ... a feeling of subjective certainty does not guarantee irrefutable certainty ...…

— G C Berkouwer

“Humans may crave absolute certainty; they may aspire to it; they may pretend, as partisans of certain religions do, to have attained…

— Carl Sagan

I can't say with certainty that slavery would have ended more quickly and more completely if the South had been allowed to…

— David Swanson

First, the probable cause of AIDS has been found: a variant of a known human cancer virus. Second, not only has the…

— Margaret Heckler

General relativity is in the old Newtonian framework where you predict what will happen, not the probability of what will happen. And…

— Brian Greene

“With the idol of certainty (including that of degrees of imperfect certainty or probability) there falls one of the defences of obscurantism…

— Karl Popper

The dignity of the human person is a transcendent value, always recognized as such by those who sincerely search for the truth.…

— Pope John Paul II

If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and…

— Immanuel Kant

There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of…

— Ayn Rand