“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“To voice doubts was unthinkable, but that did not means that doubts did not exist.” — John Christopher Copy Share Image
While denial leads to certainty, it is only the certainty of death. This is true for individuals and also for civilizations. — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
The best kind of men have a certainty in themselves that isn't done in when countered by a certainty in their women,… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
“Because these calculations generate precise numbers for an uncertain risk, they produce an illusory certainty.” — Gerd Gigerenzer Copy Share Image
His quiet certainty made the ground beneath my feet feel solid. Like someday everything might actually be okay. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I've always been envious of certainty, of people who always seemed to have a plan for their lives. — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and… — James Heckman Copy Share Image
“There is no certainty or predictability. There is no fate. There is a choice. My choice and yours, in each moment that… — Maria Alyokhina Copy Share Image
Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
On the other hand, I view the whole matter from a cosmic perspective. I don't take a position. I believe that there… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
The increased abstraction in mathematics that took place during the early part of this century was paralleled by a similar trend in… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
I was 27 when I uploaded my first YouTube video. I had a master's degree and was running a small business. I… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
Where the quest for knowledge is relatively, and now almost absolutely, unrestrained, the public benefit will be great, especially where the certainty… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“She knows her timing, always knows. The time to strike or the time to starve. Her eyes as a clock, she watches… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“Most of all: There's uncertainty in our lives. At night, you just have to go to sleep and have faith in the… — Josh Ritter Copy Share Image
People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
So the journey is over and I am back again where I started, richer by much experience and poorer by many unexploded… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the… — William Stanley Jevons 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
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
“With the idol of certainty (including that of degrees of imperfect certainty or probability) there falls one of the defences of obscurantism… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Humans may crave absolute certainty; they may aspire to it; they may pretend, as partisans of certain religions do, to have attained… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
You can safely appeal to the UN in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down. — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
There was no way to know that certainty would one day become a luxury, too. — Therese Anne Fowler Copy Share Image
“It must be an odd person indeed that can say for certain they are normal.” — Initially NO Copy Share Image
Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
