Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty. — Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke Copy Share Image
Action based on hope just felt better than the paralysis of certainty. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“The possibility of something is better than the certainty of nothing.” — Sandor L.S.G. Marai Copy Share Image
The traditional thinking has been that the stock market likes certainty. — Maria Bartiromo Copy Share Image
If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
What I most wanted even at that early age, was to capture and hold the truth, with the certainty and love that… — Neil Turok Copy Share Image
We share in the certainty that people labeled with mental illness are first and above all, human beings. Our lives are precious… — Patricia Deegan Copy Share Image
Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In their leaders, advisers, and experts, people much prefer overconfidence, total certainty, to any kind of doubt. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“There you go again, declaring the exact inverse of your experience. You human pups are so full of the things you're sure… — J. Aleksandr Wootton Copy Share Image
“Others may not understand your joy and contentment because of your certainty about who you are and why you exist. Don't waste… — Assegid Habtewold Copy Share Image
“He who asserts belief with absolute certainty knows nothing of faith and makes himself into a fool. He who is wise, upon… — Cristina Marrero Copy Share Image
“It’s not about lighting up every shadow or chasing certainty. Rather, it’s learning to trust the stillness where nothing is visible—because that’s… — Monica Laura Rapeanu Copy Share Image
Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interest of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt State laws are… — Solon Copy Share Image
Although my knowledge grows more and more, nevertheless I do not for that reason believe that it can ever be actually infinite,… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much… — Paul Outerbridge 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
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
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
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
It wasn't shared social status or ethnicity that brought Jesus' followers together either, nor was it total agreement on exactly who this… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“When faith simplifies things that need to remain complex, instead of giving us strength to live with complexity, when it gives us… — Brad Hirschfield Copy Share Image
The propositions of mathematics have, therefore, the same unquestionable certainty which is typical of such propositions as "All bachelors are unmarried," but… — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably. — Christiaan Huygens Copy Share Image
“There’s only one certainty in life. A strong man stands above and conquers all!” — Akira Toriyama Copy Share Image
