Certainty Quotes
970 quotes by 713 authors
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We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion
— John Bradshaw
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What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.
— Charles Baudelaire
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If we get total certainty, we get … bored out of our minds. So, God, in Her infinite wisdom, gave us a second human need,…
— Tony Robbins
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But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.
— Christian Lous Lange
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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
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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
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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
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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
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People always tell me with absolute certainty that they don't trust themselves.
— Richard Bandler
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The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have.
— Pema Chodron
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No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force,
— Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions
— Edward Coke
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Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.
— Robert Breault
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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
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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
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Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.
— Leonhard Euler
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