The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
I am devilishly afraid, that's certain; but ... I'll sing, that I may seem valiant. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“There’s only one certainty in life. A strong man stands above and conquers all!” — Akira Toriyama Copy Share Image
I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably. — Christiaan Huygens Copy Share Image
“Though what could anyone really say these days with one hundred percent certainty?” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
The formula goes belief, then faith, then experience, then certainty, then knowledge, then truth, and the truth will set you free. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The difference between religion and science is the difference between thoughtless certainty and thoughtful doubt. — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
“And it was like I knew , and that certainty planted itself in my belly like a warm secret.” — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
When man thinks in self-conscious submission to the voluntary revelation of the self-sufficient God, he has therewith the only possible ground of… — Cornelius Van Til Copy Share Image
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
If the Bible is uniquely and inerrantly inspired, then we have certainty; we may know real truth about God — J. Sidlow Baxter Copy Share Image
The one certainty in tiger tracks is: follow them long enough and you will eventually arrive at a tiger, unless the tiger… — John Vaillant Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Yet it is unassailably true that so long as we lack omniscience and do not know all of the future, all our… — Morris F. Cohen Copy Share Image
You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
A vital part of philosophizing is learning to trust one's own intuitivist intelligence, getting one's center of gravity back between one's feet.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Some people get certainty by working harder and saying I'm going to master something. Some people get certainty by lowering their expectations,… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I believe that the day one stops being spiritual, one ends up being religious. I live by the adage that the only… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
When he thought of her, it rather amazed him, that he had let that girl with her violin go. Now, of course,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
True. The one certainty about riding, Braygan, is that - at some time - you will fall off. It is a fact.… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Finnick!" Something between a shriek and a cry of joy. A lovely if somewhat bedraggled young woman--dark tangled hair, sea green eyes--runs… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Let this point therefore stand: that those whom the Holy Spirit has inwardly taught truly rest upon Scripture, and that Scripture itself… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Over the course of the last decade, I have become vividly aware of a literally lethal challenge from the sort of people… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Few things look as unstable as the rock-solid certainties of previous ages. — Geoff Nicholson Copy Share Image
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The only unchangable certainty in life is that nothing is unchangable or certain. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year. — John Adams Copy Share Image
