Certainty Quotes

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One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day,… — Samm Levine
Even as a teenager, I felt that for whatever reason that we were living very close to the end of human history. And now at… — Anne Graham Lotz
The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when… — Anne Lamott
Dog rescue remains a gamble, of course. For all the good will, hard work, and noble motivation, nobody can really predict with certainty how a… — Jon Katz
I believe that the day one stops being spiritual, one ends up being religious. I live by the adage that the only certainty in life… — Ashwin Sanghi
The literal resurrection of every soul who has lived and died on earth is a certainty, and surely one should make careful preparation for this… — Ezra Taft Benson
People fear leaving their safe harbor of the known and venturing off into the unknown. Human beings crave certainty - even when it limits them. — Robin S. Sharma
I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity. — Shekhar Kapur
If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge… — Michael Specter
I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it claimed certainty. It… — Tom Stoppard
U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well. — Barton Gellman
In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it… — Jules Verne
Step-parenting and being a step-sibling presents a lot of exciting opportunities. When families break up and re-form, there may be less order, less certainty, and… — Morris Gleitzman
As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job,… — Dale T. Mortensen
If you want to attract more investment, foreign investment, more talent, more business, I think having some level of certainty that the business environment respects,… — Louis R. Chenevert
I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be commonplace. Go back… — John Burdett
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of… — John Woolman
A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing. — Bret Harte
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. — Vaclav Havel

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