Certainty Quotes

“Certainty is the enemy of growth.”

— Mark Manson

What can we say with certainty?

— Voltaire

“Certainty is a comfort. And a hindrance.”

— Jason M. Steffens

Such sober certainty of waking bliss.

— John Milton

Certainty becomes you.

— Tessa Dare

Certainty is missing the point entirely.

— Anne Lamott

Certainty is the enemy of change.

— Salvador Minuchin

The only certainty is death.

— Guy de Maupassant

A barrell full of certainties won't roll very far.

— Gerd de Ley

Certainty regarding your career aged 15 is very unusual.

— Karla Crome

For those with ambition, reality is more of a creation than an unalterable certainty.

— Lori Guinn

While all the future, for thy purer soul, With "sober certainties" of love is blest.

— William Wordsworth

The certainty of our salvation rests on the character of God.

— F.B. Meyer

“That's the hardest part," he says. "The absence of certainty.”

— Cynthia Hand

Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.

— Chip Kidd

“Faith can be a greater asset than certainty.”

— Dawn Jayne

That was my gift . . . having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then…

— Miles Davis

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But…

— Blaise Pascal

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

“The certainty about the uncertain (in view to life) is that it will remain uncertain till the time its certain.”

— Mayank Sharma

“Certainty is the culprit. The spiritual person knows uncertainty—a state of mind unknown to the religious fanatic.”

— Anthony de Mello

...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“A certain way to have financial security in life is not enough savings, but enough ability.”

— Amit Kalantri

“There's only one certainty in life: how you come into the world. Where you go from there is up to you.”

— Katie Kacvinsky

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better…

— Isaac Newton

Although my knowledge grows more and more, nevertheless I do not for that reason believe that it can ever be actually infinite,…

— Rene Descartes

In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt State laws are…

— Solon

“Firstly, by learning the great lesson of wise men: patience, the certainty that everything - both good and bad - is provisional…

— Paulo Coelho

You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were…

— George Eliot

One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much…

— Paul Outerbridge

There is no inherent mechanism in our present system which can with certainty prevent competitive sectional bargaining for wages from setting up…

— William Beveridge

Do you really think we'll ever--" "I do," he said with certainty, not letting me finish. He leaned over and kissed my…

— Diana Gabaldon

...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair…

— John Piper

“I'm a girl." When Deryn opened her eyes, the lady boffin was staring at her with no change of expression. "Indeed," she…

— Scott Westerfeld

It seems to be very hard for people to live with riddles or to let them live, although one would think that…

— Anonymous

After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must…

— Carl von Clausewitz

There have been times when the church seemed afraid, but she is no longer. Analyze, dissect, use your microscope or your spectrum…

— Henry Adams

Senator apparently having overcome his loyalty to his wife and father. [Ted] Cruz finally came out and endorsed Donald Trump writing on…

— Chris Hayes

Now suppose both death and hell were utterly defeated. Suppose the fight was fixed. Suppose God took you on a crystal ball…

— Peter Kreeft

In the end it all comes down to this: you have a choice (or more accurately a rolling tangle of choices) between…

— David Bayles