“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
You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The fraudster's greatest liability is the certainty that the fraud is too clever to be detected. — Louis J. Freeh 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
Most people are great at absorbing information. Guerrilla marketing is needed because it gives small businesses a delightfully unfair advantage: certainty in… — Jay Conrad Levinson Copy Share Image
The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
We must realize that the Reformation world view leads in the direction of government freedom. But the humanist world view with inevitable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
...it is absurd to try to confine our knowledge and belief to matters which are conclusively established by sound deductive arguments. The… — J. L. Mackie Copy Share Image
... the body, normally, is never in question: our bodies are beyond question, or perhaps beneath question - they are simply, unquestionably,… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I have a certainty about eternity that is a wonderful thing, and I thank God for giving me that certainty. I do… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
There is a certain blend of courage, integrity, character and principle which has no satisfactory dictionary name but has been called different… — Louis Adamic Copy Share Image
“Don't you ever doubt it?" Davy asked. And in fact I have. And perhaps will again. But here is what happens. I… — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
In our worship of certainty we must distinguish between the sound certainty and the sham, between what is gold and what is… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
The experience I'm talking about has given me one certainty: the salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“Everything and everyone will die, and more than that, there won't be any evidence that anyone was ever here at all. There… — Adam Hines Copy Share Image
Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another's word for it. We need to… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
The abuse of the veto power has become so predictable that frequently resolutions are not even tabled because of the certainty of… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
“What then, had I discovered? That there is nobody so duplicitous as oneself? That certainty is nothing but unreasonable belief? That there… — A.J.West Copy Share Image
The only difference between causation and the value is that the word "cause" implies absolute certainty whereas the implied meaning of "value"… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
One of the worst feeling in the world is having to doubt something you thought was unquestionable. — Anonymous 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
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
Only trust in God can transform doubts into certainty, evil into good, night into radiant dawn. — Pope Francis 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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 was the anxiety that one day would not follow the next, combined with the certainty that it would.” — Jhumpa Lahiri 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
“Defeasible beliefs provide the provisional certainty necessary to navigate an uncertain world.” — John Brockman Copy Share Image
