Certainty Quotes · Page 9

Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.

— Rebecca West

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.

— Bret Harte

Faith is not a certainty. Faith is the courage to live with uncertainty.

— Jonathan Sacks

The person with the most certainty in a given situation will influence the other.

— Tony Robbins

“Immortality is given to us as a guarantee and magic as a certainty”

— MBarreto Condado

It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.

— Henri Poincare

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

— Giovanni Battista Beccaria

I can't just put myself out on a limb anymore, I don't want to take risks anymore, I want certainty.

— Anonymous

Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and…

— Ludwig von Mises

“...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...”

— John Geddes

The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.

— Norm MacDonald

We never have 100 percent certainty. We never have it. If you wait until you have 100 percent certainty, something bad is…

— Gordon R. Sullivan

“Hold your beliefs lightly.’ Certainty is not necessarily a friend of sanity, although it is often mistaken for it.”

— The School of Life

We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have…

— Peter Drucker

Almost all religions provide opportunities for human beings to convince themselves of their own righteousness, to speak in the name of God,…

— Stephen Prothero

Time again for the waltz of smiles. Amazing how you sometimes make resolutions, tell yourself everything will be a certain way from…

— David Foenkinos

Proof that a given condition always precedes or accompanies a phenomenon does not warrant concluding with certainty that a given condition is…

— Claude Bernard

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly…

— William Gibson

The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions [than we can ever know]. But with regard to those few which the human…

— Galileo Galilei

“Words have meaning, not life or persons or the universe itself,” he said. “Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at…

— Julian Jaynes

“Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. That's what life's all about. We're a probe into the unknown, into the uncertain. Why can't…

— Frank Herbert

American democracy faces a massive challenge. I don't think it is a certainty that we're headed toward Putin's Russia, as some commentariat…

— Jonathan Chait

You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you…

— David Auburn

My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises…

— Haruki Murakami

Living with doubt ... is almost always more profitable than living with certainty. People don't like doubt, so they pay money and…

— Seth Godin

Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by…

— Chauncey Wright

I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be…

— Alain de Botton

[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as…

— Anonymous

“Fanaticism can often be a normalized phenomenon, and the unwritten recipe suggests that it starts and ends with absolute certainty. If you…

— Criss Jami

Could I have made mistakes? One does not build cities if one is guided by doubt. But can one govern in absolute…

— Andrew Ryan

The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty.

— Anonymous

IT IS SAID TO AWAIT CERTAINTY IS TO AWAIT ETERNITY.

— Jonas Salk

Love me or let me go. I think it should be a yes or a no, not an I don't know.

— Anonymous

I have faith in time; its the only certainty.

— Anonymous

There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.

— Henri Poincare

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

— Socrates

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

— Voltaire

Life is certain, life circumstances are uncertain.

— Akash Rajoriya