“To overcome our addiction to certainty, we don’t need to attack the static (or ignore our cravings for it). Rather, we can… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
In an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty, the one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge. — Ikujiro Nonaka Copy Share Image
Only trust in God can transform doubts into certainty, evil into good, night into radiant dawn. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
One of the worst feeling in the world is having to doubt something you thought was unquestionable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
“Certainty was to curiosity what the sun was to the wings of Icarus. Where one shone forcefully, the other couldn't survive. With… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“My only certainty in life is that I shall one day die. I can be certain of nothing else in the future.… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Once a person believes - really believes - that certain ideas can lead to eternal happiness, or to its antithesis, he cannot… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system.… — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
We must ensure that more binding, durable, and enforceable fiscal rules go hand-in-hand with funding certainty for countries pursuing sound and sustainable… — Enda Kenny Copy Share Image
Faith was intended precisely for the simple, but the quest for certainty and simplicity becomes dangerous when it leads to fanaticism and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Life seemed to him a gift; the statement ‘I am alive’ seemed to him to contain a satisfactory certainty and many other… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? Can we get along? Can we stop making it,… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
To a certain extent all philosophers have been involved in a systematic questioning that undermines confidence and certainty. Philosophy as a whole… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
So the journey is over and I am back again where I started, richer by much experience and poorer by many unexploded… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
... I feel certain that his tale is true. Feeling that certainty, I befriend him. As long as that certainty shall last,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I do not have easy days at home now and I drift between fear and helplessness in sunny rooms where it is… — Georg Trakl Copy Share Image
“With the idol of certainty (including that of degrees of imperfect certainty or probability) there falls one of the defences of obscurantism… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It was one thing, after all, to know his feelings for Amanda hadn't changed; it was another thing entirely to face the… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming… — Alan Bullock Copy Share Image
“There's something almost weightless about our world, I think, something fleeting and insubstantial that's ill at ease with any pretence of certainty.” — Deirdre Madden Copy Share Image
“There was the anxiety that one day would not follow the next, combined with the certainty that it would.” — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
Gauss replied, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, that he had them long ago, all he was… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Large waves of love and romance are nice, but all waves of strong feeling, with their inherent illusion of certainty, must eventually… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly. — Bob McDonnell Copy Share Image
In teaching there can be too much emphasis on certainty and a proper appreciation of uncertainty is to be encouraged. — Dennis Lindley Copy Share Image
We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface. — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Was this normalcy-predictable patterns, the certainty of doing the same thing everyday? Because if so, normalcy was about to make me freak… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Don't play with someone's feelings, you may win the game but you will surely lose someone. — Anonymous 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
