Certainty Quotes

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Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and discipline to look good at a certain… — Joan Collins
We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt!… — Jeff Cooper
I am certain there is too much certainty in the world. — Michael Crichton
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things. — Denis Diderot
We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do… — Peter Drucker
Inquiry is fatal to certainty. — Will Durant
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. — Marcel Duchamp
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty. — George Eliot
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if… — Garrett Hardin
It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty… — Sam Harris
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something… — Vaclav Havel
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps… — Vaclav Havel
I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to… — Christopher Hitchens
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. — Eric Hoffer
When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith. — Ernest Holmes
The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. — Rudyard Kipling
The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding. — Rem Koolhaas
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on… — Milan Kundera
I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. — James Lovelock

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