Certainty Quotes

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It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply;… — Samuel Johnson
IT IS SAID TO AWAIT CERTAINTY IS TO AWAIT ETERNITY. — Jonas Salk
When you meditate you feel joy, harmony, peace, stillness, ecstasy, laughter, certainty, courage, strength, awareness and immortality. In the beginning you will feel these things… — Frederick Lenz
The inherent preferences of organizations are clarity, certainty and perfection. The inherent nature of human relationships involves ambiguity, uncertainty, and imperfection. How one honors, balances,… — Richard Pascale
Indecision is fatal. It is better to make a wrong decision than build up a habit of indecision. If you're wallowing in indecision, you certainty… — Marie Beynon Lyons Ray
How is it that one rails against that which is nearly a certainty? — Mary Anne Radmacher
Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when… — Cameron Mackintosh
The experience I'm talking about has given me one certainty: the salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in… — Vaclav Havel
The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on… — A. C. Benson
Proof that a given condition always precedes or accompanies a phenomenon does not warrant concluding with certainty that a given condition is the immediate cause… — Claude Bernard
[An artist] will sooner and with more certainty, establish the character of skeletons, than the most learned anatomist, whose eye has not been accustomed to… — Rembrandt Peale
One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential election, the identity… — John Paul Stevens
As soon as one point is removed from the sphere of dogmatic certainty, the discussion may not simply result in a new and better formulation,… — Adolf Hitler
I'm a member of that half of the human race which is inclined to divide the human race into two kinds of people. My dividing… — John Perry Barlow
Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race. — Bertrand Russell
The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow… — Mahmoud Darwish
We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a… — Giordano Bruno
For investor confidence, it is important that there is certainty about the future of Ireland in E.U. — Jose Manuel Barroso
We have to be mindful that there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which is us and… — Cofer Black
I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed… — Hans Blix

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