“Because these calculations generate precise numbers for an uncertain risk, they produce an illusory certainty.” — Gerd Gigerenzer Copy Share Image
Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and… — James Heckman Copy Share Image
I've always been envious of certainty, of people who always seemed to have a plan for their lives. — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
“There is no certainty or predictability. There is no fate. There is a choice. My choice and yours, in each moment that… — Maria Alyokhina Copy Share Image
His quiet certainty made the ground beneath my feet feel solid. Like someday everything might actually be okay. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
People fear leaving their safe harbor of the known and venturing off into the unknown. Human beings crave certainty - even when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
“What is true today may not be true ten years from now; there is more truth, more certainty in the inquiry "What… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
Passion. It can be used to describe the beauty of an earth-shaking meeting between two people, but it isn't just that. It's… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Doubt is a profound and effective spiritual motivation. Without doubt, no truism is transcended, no new knowledge found, no expansion of the… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
Oh, the truth, oh yeah, lot of trouble that got us into, didn't it, over the last maybe thousand years? Hitler knew… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Does not all the world know that when in autumn the Bismarcks of the world, or they who are bigger than Bismarcks,… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Economic life should be definancialised. We should learn not to use markets as storehouses of value: they do not harbour the certainties… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
PRETTY LITTLE LIARS works as a metaphor for our central human experience: we have no way to objectively know about anything, no… — Norman Buckley Copy Share Image
“As a physician, I was trained to deal with uncertainty as aggressively as I dealt with disease itself. The unknown was the… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Those who say they dislike dogma, or 'certainty', tend to be liars, hypocrites, or simply wrong. What they really dislike is the… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
Just as the spectroscope opened up a new astronomy by enabling the astronomer to determine some of the constituents of which distant… — Richard Dixon Oldham Copy Share Image
{While meditating} I sit quietly and rest in the nature of mind; I don't question or doubt whether I am in the… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The beliefs which we have most warrant for have no safeguard to rest on but a standing invitation to the whole world… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty and both - precision and certainty are impossible to attain. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I, retired in prayer, will always be with you, and together we will move ahead with the Lord in certainty. The Lord… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
There was the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“So many it seems, have made it their life's goal to bask in the ignorance of their certainty.” — John Chaplin Copy Share Image
I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Et Tu, Babe' was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
“...but the loss of a memory, like the omission of a phrase during reading, rather than making for uncertainty, can lead to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Death is the only thing we can know with any certainty. And as such, it must be the compass by which we… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
Real men DON'T assume everything's ok with their woman, they communicate with her making 100% sure everything's ok. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
