Certainty Quotes · Page 2

Certainty is missing the point entirely.

— Anne Lamott

Certainty becomes you.

— Tessa Dare

Certainty is the enemy of change.

— Salvador Minuchin

The only certainty is death.

— Guy de Maupassant

“Certainty is a comfort. And a hindrance.”

— Jason M. Steffens

“Certainty is the enemy of growth.”

— Mark Manson

What can we say with certainty?

— Voltaire

Certainty, not data, is knowledge.

— L. Ron Hubbard

People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty

— Virginia Satir

“Beauty is an advantage, smile is guarantee.”

— Amit Kalantri

I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.

— Phil Donahue

Finding someone that trusted my vision helped me find certainty in who I was.

— Syd

The only unchangable certainty in life is that nothing is unchangable or certain.

— John F. Kennedy

Few things look as unstable as the rock-solid certainties of previous ages.

— Geoff Nicholson

“Though what could anyone really say these days with one hundred percent certainty?”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

— Anatole France

If someone loves you to the depths of their heart, they will never think twice about whether they want you or not.

— Sophie Parkin

“He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. What certainty had he that a single human creature now living…

— George Orwell

I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.

— Bertrand Russell

“Often, the journey to greatness begins the moment our preferences for comfort and certainty are overruled by a greater purpose that requires…

— Brendon Burchard

In my 40-plus years as a venture capitalist, I have come to appreciate the certainty a healthy economy provides for businesses both…

— Alan Patricof

Know with certainty that there is a God, and that there exists a world beyond this one - the world of souls.

— Ostad Elahi

Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved…

— Hermann Hesse

He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability,…

— Voltaire

The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain…

— Sigmund Freud

There's no certainty to the next couple of years, but people are paying attention now. And I want to put out a…

— Andrew McMahon

I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only…

— Stephane Mallarme

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Did we get anything like the sort of reform that would make the EU work better? No. Not even close. And worse,…

— Andrea Leadsom

HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in…

— Ambrose Bierce

On September 11, people were shaken, but they quickly calmed down. There was a flash of awareness, which lasted a few fractions…

— Rene Girard

“Indeed, during the ensuring centuries, Englishmen repeatedly protested that a king could “not break or dispense with the positive laws,” and they…

— Philip Hamburger

We say that we often see animals in our dreams, but we forget that almost always we are ourselves animals therein, deprived…

— Marcel Proust

You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you…

— David Auburn

“They certainty of those with whom we disagree (...) never looks justified to us, and frequently looks odious. As often as not,…

— Kathryn Schulz

Living with doubt ... is almost always more profitable than living with certainty. People don't like doubt, so they pay money and…

— Seth Godin

My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises…

— Haruki Murakami

Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by…

— Chauncey Wright

I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be…

— Alain de Botton

[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as…

— Anonymous