“assume we know how the story ends. Certainty is the enemy of growth.” — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Certainty is the culprit. The spiritual person knows uncertainty—a state of mind unknown to the religious fanatic.” — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“The certainty about the uncertain (in view to life) is that it will remain uncertain till the time its certain.” — Mayank Sharma Copy Share Image
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It isn't the light you want to recover, it’s the certainty that there is only darkness” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, no matter how many lifetimes you live. — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
The search for the lessons of the new science is still in progress, really in its infancy. In this realm, three is… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
I'm a member of that half of the human race which is inclined to divide the human race into two kinds of… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Warped with satisfactions and terrors, woofed with too many ambiguities and too few certainties, life can be lived best not when we… — Rosalie Maggio Copy Share Image
Investors don't like uncertainty. The market is telling us that they need certainty, they need to see where the economy is heading.… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
Maybe under all that guilt and certainty that he couldn't love again, he still wanted me. I would have liked to have… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the back of my brain there exists this certainty: The body is no more than a costume, and can be… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Heaven grants the human being who has learned to live alone a deep measure of such rewards that verily would one hesitate… — Cornelia Parker 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
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
There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking… It is… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I think uncertainty is good for things. Certainty breeds complacency and complacency means that you just sit somewhere in your nice little… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The Scripture abounds in commands and cautions for our utmost diligence in our search and inquiry as to whether we are made… — John Owen Copy Share Image
I never cling on to hope or certainty. They're the enemies of peace. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
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