Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt. — Milton Glaser Copy Share Image
Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year. — John Adams Copy Share Image
We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
To discover, or recover, the sense of religious certainty one must worship. — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
I believe faith is not certainty but the courage to live with uncertainty. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp. — William James Copy Share Image
The government will not support a nine-week work year. That I can say with certainty. — Pierre Poilievre Copy Share Image
One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure. — Doris Lessing 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
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
In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live. — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education. — William Glasser Copy Share Image
“Power breeds certainty, and certainty has no clout against the unpredictable, whether you are playing poker or running a country.” — David McRaney Copy Share Image
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Heaven grants the human being who has learned to live alone a deep measure of such rewards that verily would one hesitate… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
“All certainty that comes after the 'original sin' of dismantling the matter-of-fact world full of routine and short of reflection must be… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
If we are to reach certainty and true autonomy of realization, we need to be willing to be heretics. What's more, we… — A. H. Almaas Copy Share Image
Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
I don't really think I am interested in the macabre, but I am curious about death. That's normal... The only certainty in… — Andres Serrano Copy Share Image
In order to improve the condition of mankind all men must be given the certainty of security through the exchange of safeguards,… — Antoine Pinay Copy Share Image
Our certainty that angels right now witness how we are walking through life should mightily influence the decisions we make. God is… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos without norms,… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
She loved Bram in a clear-eyed way she’d never loved her ex-husband, no rose-colored glasses or mindless giddiness, no Cinderella fantasies or… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
“It appears, from all this, that our eyes are uncertain. Two persons look at the same clock and there is a difference… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Can any man say with certainty that he was happy at a particular moment of time which he remembers as being delightful?… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
We say that we often see animals in our dreams, but we forget that almost always we are ourselves animals therein, deprived… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“They certainty of those with whom we disagree (...) never looks justified to us, and frequently looks odious. As often as not,… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth! — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Maybe that's what is means to be human . . . forever questioning our certainties. — Kay Hooper Copy Share Image
Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because its safe or certain. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The other guys are selling certainty. Not me. I'm on the corner with doubt. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
