Certainty Quotes

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A faith that can only exist in the light of victory and certainty is one which really affirms the self while pretending to affirm Christ,… — Peter Rollins
I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place. We are… — Barbara Brown Taylor
Sweating bullets to line up the Bible with our exhausting expectations, to make the Bible something itâ€™s not meant to be, isnâ€™t a pious act… — Peter Enns
Let's make sure that there is certainty during uncertain times in our economy. — George W. Bush
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants. — Bela Lugosi
We do know, with absolute certainty, thatÂ [Saddam] is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to… — Dick Cheney
Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars.… — Salman Rushdie
Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive. — Alan Bullock
We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck. — Elizabeth Bibesco
Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion… — Louis Aragon
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty,… — George Boole
This process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of President will seldom fall to the lot of any many who is not… — Alexander Hamilton
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties. — Charles William Eliot
I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer — Bridget Riley
Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has any… — Leonardo da Vinci
It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the… — Clifford D. Simak
A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing. — Bret Harte
Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty. — Joseph Bruchac
Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and… — William Graham Sumner
The greatest good that can come to anyone is forming within them an absolute certainty of themselves, and of their relationship to the Universe, forever… — Ernest Holmes

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