Battlefields Quote by Gordon R. Sullivan

Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.

— Peter Elbow

Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.

— Ellen Langer

Certainty is the enemy of mankind. If you're certain about everything, you have the Inquisition, you have Nazis and you have - that certainty…

— Anthony Hopkins

If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.

— Joe Biden

Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance…

— Sibel Edmonds

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

— Benjamin Franklin

The only certainty is that there is no certainty.

— Robert Rubin

The only certainty is uncertainty

— Pliny the Elder

The only certainty is death.

— Guy de Maupassant

What can we say with certainty?

— Voltaire

Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the…

— Carl Sagan

Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

— Voltaire