Certainty Quotes

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We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion — John Bradshaw
What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil. — Charles Baudelaire
If we get total certainty, we get â€¦ bored out of our minds. So, God, in Her infinite wisdom, gave us a second human need,… — Tony Robbins
But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty. — Christian Lous Lange
The Principle of Uncertainty fixed once for all the realisation that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that at the very… — Jacob Bronowski
As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less likely. Science can say nothing… — Lawrence M. Krauss
The propositions of mathematics have, therefore, the same unquestionable certainty which is typical of such propositions as "All bachelors are unmarried," but they also share… — Carl Gustav Hempel
It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and… — John Maynard Keynes
People always tell me with absolute certainty that they don't trust themselves. — Richard Bandler
The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have. — Pema Chodron
No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force, — Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it. — Peter Elbow
A Christian is not a skeptic. A Christian is a person with a burning heart, a heart set aflame with certainty of the resurrection. — R C Sproul
When we seem to have won or lost in terms of certainties, we must, as literature teachers in the classroom, remember such warnings -- let… — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
The [Israelis] believed - they were possessed of an absolute certainty and conviction - that 'terrorists' were in Chatila. How could I explain to them… — Robert Fisk
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions — Edward Coke
Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith. — Robert Breault
There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a… — Gregory Benford
Science is not the affirmation of a set of beliefs but a process of inquiry aimed at building a testable body of knowledge constantly open… — Michael Shermer
Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire. — Leonhard Euler

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