“People crave certainty. And control. We spend our lives erecting coping mechanisms, little games we play to preserve the illusion of safety.” — John Donohue Copy Share Image
“those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.” — Bathroom Readers' Institute Copy Share Image
“The only certainty is that we never know what tomorrow holds. We live for today, life is short, so let's enjoy together… — Jinxx Copy Share Image
The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“If! If! If There were so many ifs in life, never any certainty of anything, never any security...” — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides.… — Tony Schwartz Copy Share Image
The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Never compromise your today for your tomorrow that is not certain, make the best of everyday you have to see, despite what… — Blaze Olamiday Copy Share Image
A compassionate willingess is required - as is the courage to live before the fact, before the understanding, before any rational support… — Clark Moustakas Copy Share Image
We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“Sweating bullets to line up the Bible with our exhausting expectations, to make the Bible something it’s not meant to be, isn’t… — Peter Enns Copy Share Image
“Kaneta said, “What determined life or death? No Buddhist priest knows, no Christian pastor—not even the Pope in Rome. So I would… — Richard Lloyd Parry Copy Share Image
“At the very least, one would hope that by becoming aware of the many ways our brain can trick us, we would… — Robert Carroll Copy Share Image
It infuriated him to think that there were still people in the state who believed in a loving and merciful God. There… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
My mother has always been the point I calibrated myself against. In knowing where she was, I could always locate myself, as… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“All descriptions of how near certainty is to be achieved are based primarily on emerging technologies. A Global Information Grid of “persistent… — H.R. McMaster Copy Share Image
“The South African artist William Kentridge speaks to this type of certainty: 'To say that one needs art, or politics, that incorporate… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
“Albert knew that one could never be sure about magic, but a lack of certainty is not a good reason to do… — Howard L. Anderson Copy Share Image
As a businessman, you need economic certainty. On the tax policies. You need it on your regulatory policies. — Ted Yoho Copy Share Image
But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty. — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
Joy adapts and changes, but it always endures, even as a flicker of light born of our personal certainty that, when everything… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The future isn't written in the stars. There are no guarantees. So claim your adulthood. Be intentional. Get to work. Pick your… — Meg Jay Copy Share Image
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“It is not always necessary to search for the cause behind everything, because every cause is unfounded. A cause only looks like… — László Krasznahorkai Copy Share Image
As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less likely. Science… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion. — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Two things that are never promised, life and happiness, but as long as you're alive, find and do what makes you happy! — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis. — Chris Argyris Copy Share Image
“What kind of husband would I be if I bet against my own marriage?' I smiled. 'The stupid kind. Didn't you listen… — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always… — Tzvetan Todorov Copy Share Image
