Certainty Quotes

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I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion with my previous… — Henri Poincare
A reasonable probability is the only certainty. — E. W. Howe
It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all. — Henri Poincare
The present is the only reality and the only certainty. — Arthur Schopenhauer
If you are seeking for security, certainty, your eyes will become closed. And you will be less and less surprised and you will lose the… — Rajneesh
We say, then, to anyone who is under trial, give Him time to steep the soul in His eternal truth. Go into the open air,… — Amy Carmichael
What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is… — Benjamin Cardozo
He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty. — Samuel Johnson
Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory.… — E. O. Wilson
There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process… — Wallace D. Wattles
Pour the bulk of your time into action, not deciding. The state of indecision is a major time waster. Don't spend more than 60 seconds… — Steve Pavlina
If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don't abide in… — Rumi
Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past. — Harry Browne
Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that… — Abraham Lincoln
The dignity of the human person is a transcendent value, always recognized as such by those who sincerely search for the truth. Indeed, the whole… — Pope John Paul II
It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we are enabled to… — Georges Cuvier
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will… — Maurice Maeterlinck
Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability… — Samuel Johnson
I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the theory of probability.… — William Stanley Jevons
No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have… — Charles Caleb Colton

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