Certainty Quotes · Page 10

Love me or let me go. I think it should be a yes or a no, not an I don't know.

— Anonymous

I have faith in time; its the only certainty.

— Anonymous

There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.

— Henri Poincare

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

— Socrates

Life is certain, life circumstances are uncertain.

— Akash Rajoriya

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

— Voltaire

God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts.

— Sylvia Plath

The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

— Mark Twain

If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives.

— Richard P. Feynman

If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.

— Yehuda Berg

“No one knows for sure about the future. But if you feel reluctant to plan something about it, then someone with guts…

— Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident

Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory? Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It…

— Jean Shepherd

“Perhaps, it is better to be decided than undecided. But it is certainly the best to stay decidedly undecided.”

— Raheel Farooq

I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.

— John Patrick Shanley

“Perhaps we are doomed if we press on . . . but I know for a certainty that we are doomed if we turn back.”

— Anonymous

Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust…

— Edmund Burke

An election marks the end of the affair; it puts paid to the seduction of the many by the few. Pretty words,…

— Anna Quindlen

Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes…

— Philip Sidney

“Words have meaning, not life or persons or the universe itself,” he said. “Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at…

— Julian Jaynes

“Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. That's what life's all about. We're a probe into the unknown, into the uncertain. Why can't…

— Frank Herbert

The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties…

— Neil MacGregor

I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and…

— Madeleine L'Engle

American democracy faces a massive challenge. I don't think it is a certainty that we're headed toward Putin's Russia, as some commentariat…

— Jonathan Chait

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

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

— David Bayles

Okay. I'll deal with Benjamin. You're safe, okay? Nothing's gonna happen." His mouth pulled tight against itself. And now I was having…

— Lilith Saintcrow

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

— Peter Kreeft

Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that…

— Paulo Coelho

It wasn't about wanting to die or having nothing left to live for; it was about letting go. You live your life…

— Kelley Armstrong

Very few people would choose to have even the most fabled assortment of goods if it meant getting cancer within the year.…

— Paul L Wachtel

Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.

— Will Durant

“Immortality is given to us as a guarantee and magic as a certainty”

— MBarreto Condado

The person with the most certainty in a given situation will influence the other.

— Tony Robbins

Faith is not a certainty. Faith is the courage to live with uncertainty.

— Jonathan Sacks

It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.

— Henri Poincare

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

— Giovanni Battista Beccaria

The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty.

— Anonymous

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

— Sophocles