Certainty Quotes · Page 2

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

— Honore de Balzac

It is way less certain to be a wonderful business in the future. The threat is alternative mediums of information. Every newspaper…

— Charlie Munger

While we were never able to provide 100 percent certainty regarding the disposition of Iraq's proscribed weaponry, we did ascertain a 90-95…

— Scott Ritter

To discover, or recover, the sense of religious certainty one must worship.

— Georgia Harkness

I can't just put myself out on a limb anymore, I don't want to take risks anymore, I want certainty.

— Anonymous

We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire…

— Blaise Pascal

Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.

— Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke

Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of…

— E. O. Wilson

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a…

— Vaclav Havel

To find the length of an object, we have to perform certain physical operations. The concept of length is therefore fixed when…

— Percy Williams Bridgman

Nothing happens carelessly. We’re not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that…

— Clive Barker

Certainty, and the innovation that thrives in a climate of certainty, are key to progress.

— Andrew R. Wheeler

Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim…

— Salman Rushdie

To me, ideology is corrupt; it's a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible…

— Jordan Peterson

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

— Garth Risk Hallberg

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them…

— Garrett Hardin

My mother has always been the point I calibrated myself against. In knowing where she was, I could always locate myself, as…

— Sarah Dessen

Living by faith isn't living with certainty. It's trusting God in spite of unanswered questions and unresolved doubts.

— Rick Warren

I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.

— Christiaan Huygens

That which is true must always remain true, though the applications may change greatly from generation to generation. It is the absence…

— Anonymous

What I need most of all is certainty.

— Milan Kundera

[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

— Elie Wiesel

Fundamentalists believe that we don't believe in anything. In their view of the world, they are in possession of absolute certainties, while…

— Salman Rushdie

One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever…

— George Edward Woodberry

ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient.

— Colin Maclaurin