Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“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
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
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
Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Fundamentalists believe that we don't believe in anything. In their view of the world, they are in possession of absolute certainties, while… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When we find our core certainty within, then we no longer look for certainty outside. The unfathomable nature of the ever-changing world… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“It was not a matter, mind you, of the certainty I had of being more intelligent than everyone else. Besides, such certainty… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The church's ... certainty is bound to certain norms and ... a feeling of subjective certainty does not guarantee irrefutable certainty ...… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
The truth has no need to be uttered to be made apparent, and ... one may perhaps gather it with more certainty,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
There is a big difference between wanting to say you wrote a book, and actually writing one. Many people think they want… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump] is talking a lot about redoing trade and that's the area that is getting globalists nervous. Number one, they want… — Maria Bartiromo Copy Share Image
I suppose I like certainty as much as anyone else, but I also feel that the hidden costs are high, that we… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Was there another life she was meant to be living? At times she felt a keen certainty that there was ― a… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Having spent 200 hours on the above, the young player, even if he possesses no special talent for chess, is likely to… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures.… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“when the great intolerance of faith was lost, the secular robe of office had to supplant the sacred one, and society had… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance. — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. — James Lovelock 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
“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
One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis. — Chris Argyris 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
“Certainty is not to be had. But as we learn this we become not more moral but more resigned. We become nihilists.” — Allen Wheelis Copy Share Image
Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the… — Harry Browne 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
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
Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very… — Sibel Edmonds Copy Share Image
We do know, with absolute certainty, that [Saddam] is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
“The stumbling block isn't the certainty effect per se. It's the way that smart people are influenced by mere words, by the… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
“Have you ever loved something so much that you never had to even think about whether you did or not? That's how… — R. YS Perez Copy Share Image
“In art we do not make things any simpler by making simpler things. Reduction does not yield certainty, but something like its… — Kirk Varnedoe Copy Share Image
I don't believe anything. I only know some things to a greater degree of certainty than others. — John Ryman Copy Share Image
![“[Donald Trump] is talking a lot about redoing trade and that's the area that is getting globalists nervous. Number one, they want certainty. They do not want to see a disruption in trade. He's promising to rip up NAFTA, redo NAFTA. He's not going to do the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the TPP trade…” quote by Maria Bartiromo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/adf/maria-bartiromo-12020_areas_donald-trump-is-talking-a-lot-about-redo_2896447.jpg)
![“Having spent 200 hours on the above, the young player, even if he possesses no special talent for chess, is likely to be among those two or three thousand chessplayers [who play on a par with a master]. There are, however, a quarter of a million chessplayers who annually spend no fewer than 200…” quote by Emanuel Lasker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cbf/emanuel-lasker-13485_achieve_having-spent-200-hours-on-the-above-the_1661503.png)
![“We do know, with absolute certainty, that [Saddam] is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapon.” quote by Dick Cheney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb4/dick-cheney-1810_absolute-certainty_we-do-know-with-absolute-certainty-that_363969.jpg)
