Quotes about Certainty

Certainty is a cruel mindset. Votes: 4

Certainty, not data, is knowledge. Votes: 4

There is no certainty; there is only adventure. Votes: 4

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. Votes: 4

Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous. Votes: 4

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. Votes: 4

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end. Votes: 4

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can. Votes: 4

Certainty becomes you. Votes: 3

Certainty ends inquiry. Votes: 3

Inquiry is fatal to certainty. Votes: 3

Doubt is long-winded. Certainty is brief. Votes: 3

Certainty is no guarantor of correctness. Votes: 3

Certainty is missing the point entirely. Votes: 3

Certainty is the enemy of change. Votes: 3

Certainty is an unrealistic and unattainable ideal Votes: 3

Certainty is usually a sign of pathology. Votes: 3

Certainty a strange Ferris wheel of a statement! Votes: 3

Certainty abolishes hope, and robs us of renewal. Votes: 3

To believe with certainty, we must begin with doubting. Votes: 3

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Votes: 3

Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility. Votes: 3

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck. Votes: 3

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind. Votes: 3

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. Votes: 3

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man. Votes: 3

Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it. Votes: 3

Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature. Votes: 3

Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty. Votes: 3

Certainty sees things in restrictive, protective, aggressive ways, and thus isn't seeing at all. Votes: 3

It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all. Votes: 3

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt. Votes: 3

I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity. Votes: 3

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge. Votes: 3

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance. Votes: 3

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions Votes: 3

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions. Votes: 3

Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life. Votes: 3

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface. Votes: 3

Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security Votes: 3

You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous. Votes: 3

But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty. Votes: 3

Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion. Votes: 3

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. Votes: 3

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. Votes: 3

Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning. Votes: 3

Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it. Votes: 3

We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty is American. Votes: 3

Certainty and similar states of "˜knowing what we know' arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason. Votes: 3

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive. Votes: 3

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. Votes: 3

I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action. Votes: 3

Certainty is the enemy of mankind. If you're certain about everything, you have the Inquisition, you have Nazis and you have - that certainty is something to be guarded about. Votes: 3

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 sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. Votes: 3

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 sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose Votes: 3

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 one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity. Votes: 3

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty. Votes: 1

From principles is derived probability but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts Votes: 1

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts Votes: 1

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating. Votes: 1

In essence we have become addicted to the certainty, sureness or sense of security that our faith provides Votes: 1

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, no matter how many lifetimes you live Votes: 1

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly certain than others Votes: 1

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and can never soar Votes: 1

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties Votes: 1

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty. Votes: 1

There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will experience hardship and stress at some point. Votes: 1

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight. Votes: 1

The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation. Votes: 1

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it. Votes: 1

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance. Votes: 1

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle. Votes: 1

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, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities. Votes: 1

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 one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity... Votes: 1

We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty. Votes: 1

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions. Votes: 1

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 or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know. Votes: 1

Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash. Votes: 1

I learned the most important lesson of my life: that the extraordinary is not the birthright of a chosen and privileged few, but of all people, even the humblest. That is my one certainty: we are all the manifestation of the divinity of God. Votes: 1

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 which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man. Votes: 1

That tide of insecurity would come in and out over the years, sometimes stranding me for a while but occasionally lifting me just beyond what I thought I could acomplish. Either way, it would wash over the same bedrock certainty: ultimately, I know myself. Votes: 1

The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that seductive land where we all find certainty and consolation. Nothing quite spans this gulf with such immediacy as the art of popular song. Votes: 1

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good. Votes: 1

If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is. Votes: 1

I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God. Votes: 1

Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh? Votes: 1

People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence. Don't be shy or feel intimidated by the experience. You may face some unexpected criticism, but be prepared for it with confidence. Votes: 1

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided. Votes: 1

If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this. Votes: 1

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else - God is in this person's life. You can - you must - try to seek God in every human life. Votes: 1

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 must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York! Votes: 1

Hope is certainty. Votes: 0

The only certainty is death. Votes: 0

The only certainty is uncertainty Votes: 0

Moral certainty is intellectual immorality Votes: 0

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous Votes: 0

I have no talent for certainty. Votes: 0

What can we say with certainty? Votes: 0

Such sober certainty of waking bliss. Votes: 0

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous. Votes: 0

Change is the investor's only certainty. Votes: 0

Nothing consoles and comforts like certainty does. Votes: 0

Claiming certainty without corroborating evidence is stupid. Votes: 0

Moral certainty is never more than probability. Votes: 0

A reasonable probability is the only certainty. Votes: 0

The word of God is a certainty. Votes: 0

Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood. Votes: 0

Certitude is not the test of certainty. Votes: 0

[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty. Votes: 0

The world is certainty a sudden place. Votes: 0

Vast ills have followed a belief in certainty. Votes: 0

Deep down in everyone was sorrow and certainty. Votes: 0

There is no certainty; there is only adventure Votes: 0

Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane. Votes: 0

One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry. Votes: 0

Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change Votes: 0

What I need most of all is certainty. Votes: 0

Between certainty and the real, an ancient enmity. Votes: 0

No one can forecast the economy with certainty. Votes: 0

If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy. Votes: 0

To believe with certainty, we must begin with doubting. Votes: 0

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty. Votes: 0

The certainty within our spirit made the dream reality. Votes: 0

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting. Votes: 0

The only things of certainty are Death and Taxes. Votes: 0

Life is ever evolving. The only certainty is change. Votes: 0

What men really want is not knowledge but certainty. Votes: 0

The only certainty is that there is no certainty. Votes: 0

I do know something. Just not with any certainty. Votes: 0

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty. Votes: 0

Through patience and certainty, leadership in the religion is obtained. Votes: 0

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty. Votes: 0

In a world of moral certainty, the unthinkable becomes permissible. Votes: 0

People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs. Votes: 0

Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous. Votes: 0

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty. Votes: 0

Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still Votes: 0

The only certainty in life is that it is uncertain. Votes: 0

I know nothing but the certainty of my own ignorance. Votes: 0

Customers loves certainty, make sure you give it to them. Votes: 0

The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty. Votes: 0

The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty. Votes: 0

IT IS SAID TO AWAIT CERTAINTY IS TO AWAIT ETERNITY. Votes: 0

The present is the only reality and the only certainty. Votes: 0

Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence. Votes: 0

The traditional thinking has been that the stock market likes certainty. Votes: 0

One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty. Votes: 0

With certainty, courage and commitment, the dream will be a reality. Votes: 0

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world. Votes: 0

People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty Votes: 0

Digital television is no longer a probability, it is a certainty, Votes: 0

I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion. Votes: 0

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty. Votes: 0

This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime! Votes: 0

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain. Votes: 0

I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps. Votes: 0

In the absence of certainty, instinct is all you can follow. Votes: 0

I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own. Votes: 0

both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold Votes: 0

Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom. Votes: 0

The certainty of our salvation rests on the character of God. Votes: 0

The need for certainty is the greatest disease the Mind faces Votes: 0

ritual lulls our fear of disorder with the certainty of order. Votes: 0

Safety and certainty in oil lie in variety, and variety alone. Votes: 0

It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations. Votes: 0

More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity. Votes: 0

Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence. Votes: 0

People always tell me with absolute certainty that they don't trust themselves. Votes: 0

Action based on hope just felt better than the paralysis of certainty. Votes: 0

Just because someone seems to have more certainty, doesn't mean they're right. Votes: 0

To discover, or recover, the sense of religious certainty one must worship. Votes: 0

We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion Votes: 0

Literature will save me it's the only certainty i am sure of. Votes: 0

Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own. Votes: 0

The only time a dead certainty applies is in a dream world. Votes: 0

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. Votes: 0

To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure. Votes: 0

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. Votes: 0

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty. Votes: 0

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment Votes: 0

There are no means of attaining faith and certainty except through the Qur'an. Votes: 0

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof. Votes: 0

Let's make sure that there is certainty during uncertain times in our economy. Votes: 0

The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time. Votes: 0

One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure. Votes: 0

The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress. Votes: 0

How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words? Votes: 0

The only unchangable certainty in life is that nothing is unchangable or certain. Votes: 0

In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity. Votes: 0

I never cling on to hope or certainty. They're the enemies of peace. Votes: 0

I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death. Votes: 0

One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis. Votes: 0

I believe any decline would lock in a Fed increase with some certainty. Votes: 0

I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream. Votes: 0

Faith is not a certainty. Faith is the courage to live with uncertainty. Votes: 0

Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one. Votes: 0

How is it that one rails against that which is nearly a certainty? Votes: 0

Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire. Votes: 0

If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet. Votes: 0

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. Votes: 0

The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal. Votes: 0

Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith. Votes: 0

The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding. Votes: 0

Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death. Votes: 0

He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion. Votes: 0

Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please. Votes: 0

Faith in God gives us joy. It is a certainty of His glorious blessings. Votes: 0

Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty. Votes: 0

If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer Votes: 0

The person with the most certainty in a given situation will influence the other. Votes: 0

The other guys are selling certainty. Not me. I'm on the corner with doubt. Votes: 0

Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic. Votes: 0

A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine. Votes: 0

The underlying aim of practice . .is to create certainty through the development of high-quality listening. Votes: 0

Knowledge breeds doubt, not certainty, And the more we know the more uncertain we become. Votes: 0

I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations. Votes: 0

She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference. Votes: 0

There was no way to know that certainty would one day become a luxury, too. Votes: 0

Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it's not arrogant. Votes: 0

American businesses are looking for are certainty and executive orders don't really get them that. Votes: 0

There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price. Votes: 0

The difference between religion and science is the difference between thoughtless certainty and thoughtful doubt. Votes: 0

No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty. Votes: 0

There is a long history of how DNA sequencing can bring certainty to people's lives. Votes: 0

There has to be some certainty about who the leader is before the summer break. Votes: 0

Anything that has low certainty or has a lot of impact should be tested early. Votes: 0

A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing. Votes: 0

The only certainty about following the crowd is that you will all get there together. Votes: 0

You want to be a hero? Learn to create certainty in the face of fear. Votes: 0

When we find our core certainty within, then we no longer look for certainty outside. Votes: 0

Only trust in God can transform doubts into certainty, evil into good, night into radiant dawn. Votes: 0

Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic. Votes: 0

Every great dream, meet an opposing views.The certainty within our spirit made the dream reality. Votes: 0

The fraudster's greatest liability is the certainty that the fraud is too clever to be detected. Votes: 0

There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty. Votes: 0

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore. Votes: 0

The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul. Votes: 0

...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. Votes: 0

One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided. Votes: 0

We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty. Votes: 0

A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing. Votes: 0

Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand. Votes: 0

Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise. Votes: 0

It is the certainty that you are about to recover, that brings results, not the hope. Votes: 0

We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come. Votes: 0

No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force, Votes: 0

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress. Votes: 0

The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars. Votes: 0

Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise. Votes: 0

Infinite possibility in all things is a certainty. That pretty much covers theology and philosophy for me. Votes: 0

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason. Votes: 0

There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency. Votes: 0

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. Votes: 0

In their leaders, advisers, and experts, people much prefer overconfidence, total certainty, to any kind of doubt. Votes: 0

Just like moons and suns,With certainty of tides,Just like hopes springing high,Still I'll rise." Votes: 0

Those willing to trade freedom for certainty are certain to find the cure worse than the ailment. Votes: 0

Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty. Votes: 0

Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all? Votes: 0

If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without. Votes: 0

I don't believe anything. I only know some things to a greater degree of certainty than others. Votes: 0

It's good to have some certainty in life, even if it's only that I'm in deep trouble. Votes: 0

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. Votes: 0

What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt. Votes: 0

It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works. Votes: 0

That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have. Votes: 0

Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty. Votes: 0

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation. Votes: 0

Living by faith isn't living with certainty. It's trusting God in spite of unanswered questions and unresolved doubts. Votes: 0

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education. Votes: 0

His quiet certainty made the ground beneath my feet feel solid. Like someday everything might actually be okay. Votes: 0

We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life. Votes: 0

Real dialogue is where two or more people become willing to suspend their certainty in each other's presence. Votes: 0

For investor confidence, it is important that there is certainty about the future of Ireland in E.U. Votes: 0

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so. Votes: 0

The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty. Votes: 0

You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down. Votes: 0

Let go of consistency, let go of certainty. Learn to live with the waves of change and uncertainty. Votes: 0

There was the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry. Votes: 0

Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos. Votes: 0

Knowing the precies answers is not as crucial as the certainty that the answers do, in fact, exist. Votes: 0

Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed. Votes: 0

Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race. Votes: 0

Neither the intensity of your feelings nor the certainty of your convictions is any assurance that you are right. Votes: 0

Because of the collapsing economy of America, it is nearly a mathematical certainty that this ship will soon flounder. Votes: 0

We must always remember that all medical interventions have risk, and very little can be asserted with 100 percent certainty. Votes: 0

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. Votes: 0

Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal. Votes: 0

I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door. Votes: 0

I will go on quietly and slowly, but I will go on firmly, and with a certainty of success. Votes: 0

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Votes: 0

Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion. Votes: 0

If the Bible is uniquely and inerrantly inspired, then we have certainty; we may know real truth about God Votes: 0

In an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty, the one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge. Votes: 0

she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience. Votes: 0

Uncertainty would be the only certainty there's, and realizing how to stay with insecurity could be the only protection Votes: 0

I put heavy weight on certainty. It's not risky to buy securities at a fraction of what they're worth. Votes: 0

it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime Votes: 0

Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated. Votes: 0

Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral. Votes: 0

Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up. Votes: 0

The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have. Votes: 0

In teaching there can be too much emphasis on certainty and a proper appreciation of uncertainty is to be encouraged. Votes: 0

What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil. Votes: 0

There is always a pleasure in unravelling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty. Votes: 0

The moment our lips met, I knew with pure and piercing certainty that I would have waited for him forever. Votes: 0

We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations. Votes: 0

Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists. Votes: 0

God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it. Votes: 0

The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life. Votes: 0

... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty. Votes: 0

Here, illuminated at last,Nestles the ruddy glint of spiritual certainty;Sweet moments of passion and healing,Of sensual release. Votes: 0

Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty. Votes: 0

Our need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit 'how-to-parent' strategies both seductive and dangerous. Votes: 0

In the [John F.] Kennedy case, I believe the absence of a conspiracy can be proved to a virtual certainty. Votes: 0

[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism. Votes: 0

You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith. Votes: 0

I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive. Votes: 0

The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty and both - precision and certainty are impossible to attain. Votes: 0

I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding. Votes: 0

In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God. Votes: 0

The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt. Votes: 0

His thoughts flicked between the confidence of the Anyala Stone, the expectations of his world, and, the certainty of his failure. Votes: 0

I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement. Votes: 0

While denial leads to certainty, it is only the certainty of death. This is true for individuals and also for civilizations. Votes: 0

Even if one's head were to be suddenly cut off, he should be able to do one more action with certainty. Votes: 0

I will repeat a technique until it is mastered, no matter when that will be. One certainty though: it will be. Votes: 0

Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty. Votes: 0

It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties. Votes: 0

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last. Votes: 0

I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden. Votes: 0

The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species. Votes: 0

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything. Votes: 0

One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone. Votes: 0

We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly. Votes: 0

I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better.... Votes: 0

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom. Votes: 0

A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty. Votes: 0

Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty. Votes: 0

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread. Votes: 0

If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty. Votes: 0

Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain. Votes: 0

Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable. Votes: 0

I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness. Votes: 0

Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is. Votes: 0

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer. Votes: 0

Know with certainty that there is a God, and that there exists a world beyond this one - the world of souls. Votes: 0

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith. Votes: 0

I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place. Votes: 0

Don't try and understand this with your mind. There will be no absolute knowing, no certainty in these thoughts and philosophies and ideas. Votes: 0

In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid. Votes: 0

The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends. Votes: 0

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends. Votes: 0

All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents. Votes: 0

Statistics were magic like this: they could tell you with near-certainty that a thing would occur, without a hint of when or where. Votes: 0

CREDIT supposes specific and permanent funds for the punctual payment of interest, with a moral certainty of a final redemption of the principal. Votes: 0

About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box. Votes: 0

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning. Votes: 0

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things. Votes: 0

Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past. Votes: 0

Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition; adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and certainty. Votes: 0

I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty. Votes: 0

You can never rightly judge another person's life because as a person, you only know the truth, with certainty, of your own experiences. Votes: 0

In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being unsure. Votes: 0

When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty. Votes: 0

I brought Hassan’s son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty Votes: 0

Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen. Votes: 0

Educators must resist the quest for certainty. If there were certainty there would be no scientific advancement. So it is with morals and patriotism. Votes: 0

Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory? Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty. Votes: 0

Only years of practice will teach you the mysteries and bold certainty of a real gardener, who treads at random, yet tramples on nothing. Votes: 0

The things of another world being distant, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconvenience, we must frequently revolve their certainty and importance. Votes: 0

Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written. Votes: 0

Faith does not rely on knowing anything with certainty. It requires only the courage to accept that whatever happens is for the highest good. Votes: 0

Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man. Votes: 0

The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience. Votes: 0

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse! Votes: 0

I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd. Votes: 0

What I most wanted even at that early age, was to capture and hold the truth, with the certainty and love that it brings. Votes: 0

What makes you so certain?" "But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?" "Yes!" "Then you want death. Votes: 0

My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty. Votes: 0

Faith to me is having absolute certainty that God is in control of my life and that He has my best interests at heart. Votes: 0

May the love in your heart overshadow any sorrows, and may you always know with a deep inner certainty, how loved you truly are. Votes: 0

A Christian is not a skeptic. A Christian is a person with a burning heart, a heart set aflame with certainty of the resurrection. Votes: 0

I, retired in prayer, will always be with you, and together we will move ahead with the Lord in certainty. The Lord is victorious. Votes: 0

Once you get it into your head that somebody is controlling events, you can interpret everything in that light and find no reasonable certainty anywhere. Votes: 0

People fear leaving their safe harbor of the known and venturing off into the unknown. Human beings crave certainty - even when it limits them. Votes: 0

A lot of people hear me attacking their certainty. I don't have any interest in doing that. I'm interested in penetrating the meaning of certainty. Votes: 0

Sometimes I think death is a greater awareness than life. Life gives us the illusion of immortality, whereas death gives us the certainty of immortality Votes: 0

People fear leaving their safe harbor of the known and venturing off into the unknown. Human beings crave certainty - even when it limits them. Votes: 0

Dialogue starts with the willingness to challenge our own thinking, to recognize that any certainty we have is, at best, a hypothesis about the world. Votes: 0

I'm opposed to censure, .. Whether or not one will be permitted, it's under discussion. It isn't ruled out, but it's not a dead-bang certainty either. Votes: 0

All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them. Votes: 0

Although we may trust God's promises for life after death and the certainty of a heavenly home, we must still face the reality of death. Votes: 0

U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well. Votes: 0

You should have certainty in what you do. Anyone who has done anything in this world was hated. If you're not hated, you've done nothing. Votes: 0

Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe. Votes: 0

Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . . Votes: 0

A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty. Votes: 0

Even the stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found? Votes: 0

It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty. Votes: 0

All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top. Votes: 0

When two people meet, as long as there is any form of rapport maintained, the person with the most certainty will eventually influence ther other person. Votes: 0

Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when the world doesn't fit. Votes: 0

Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to eternal quackery. Votes: 0

In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science or religion, is dangerous. Votes: 0

When man thinks in self-conscious submission to the voluntary revelation of the self-sufficient God, he has therewith the only possible ground of certainty for his knowledge. Votes: 0

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 for preventing it. Votes: 0

We never have 100 percent certainty. We never have it. If you wait until you have 100 percent certainty, something bad is going to happen on the battlefield. Votes: 0

Was this normalcy-predictable patterns, the certainty of doing the same thing everyday? Because if so, normalcy was about to make me freak out and start screaming. Votes: 0

Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world. Votes: 0

The only certainty is that we never know what tomorrow holds. We live for today, life is short, so let's enjoy it together while we can. Votes: 0

The universe only gives you what you can handle, so trust that whatever is happening to you is exactly what you need. Just trust. Have certainty! Votes: 0

The one certainty in tiger tracks is: follow them long enough and you will eventually arrive at a tiger, unless the tiger arrives at you first. Votes: 0

You're optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does. Votes: 0

Not all is certainty in our world, Karigan. If it were there'd be no opportunity for faith; and then it would be a very dull existence. Votes: 0

Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover. Votes: 0

We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information. Votes: 0

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 no certainty. Votes: 0

How incredibly far our lives drift from where we knew with all certainty they would go. How little today resembles what yesterday thought it would look like. Votes: 0

If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal. Votes: 0

The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks. (65) Votes: 0

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 of science. Votes: 0

Discovering, for example, that as witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you are or have been. [p. 65] Votes: 0

Without sounding overly pompous about it, I don't really trust certainty in anything, actually. Especially as I get older. Except love. I'm certain of love, I guess. Votes: 0

And I knew with total certainty that a protection factor of fifteen was the highest level of sunblock scientifically possible. Now they were selling me a thirty. Votes: 0

Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the innumerate into a dumb acquiescence. Votes: 0

Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well. Votes: 0

Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or the seasons. Votes: 0

We share in the certainty that people labeled with mental illness are first and above all, human beings. Our lives are precious and are of infinite value. Votes: 0

Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that youve grasped the truth. Votes: 0

The best kind of men have a certainty in themselves that isn't done in when countered by a certainty in their women, and they are much adored. Votes: 0

The only thing that anyone can diagnose, with any certainty, by looking at a fat person, is their own level of stereotype and prejudice toward fat people. Votes: 0

We have to be mindful that there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which is us and our allies. Votes: 0

An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led. Votes: 0

Although I was first drawn to math and science by the certainty they promised, today I find the unanswered questions and the unexpected connections at least as attractive. Votes: 0

Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state of scientific thought. Votes: 0

From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it will find most alleviations. Votes: 0

Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight. It is not willingness to know, but willingness to DO (obey) God's will that brings certainty. Votes: 0

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life. Votes: 0

As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less likely. Science can say nothing with absolute certainty. Votes: 0

There is no certainty of what will or won't be in our lives. All we have is this moment. The last is gone, the next isn't here yet. Votes: 0

Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race. Votes: 0

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 without pain. Votes: 0

The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty. Votes: 0

Your imagination is ten times more potent than your willpower. Unleashed, it provides a sense of certainty and tenacious vision that goes far beyond any limitation of the past. Votes: 0

Feed and strengthen your body. Fear is physical. When you lift weights or go for a sprint, that energy flows back into your body and restores you to certainty. Votes: 0

Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness. Votes: 0

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human. Votes: 0

One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision. Votes: 0

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made. Votes: 0

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. Votes: 0

We do know, with absolute certainty, that [Saddam] is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapon. Votes: 0

The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system. The revolution provides him with his opium. Votes: 0

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 will be no greater. Votes: 0

It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty. Votes: 0

There is a call to spiritual perseverance. A call not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately, knowing with certainty that God will never be defeated. Votes: 0

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance. Votes: 0

Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty. (10) Votes: 0

People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence. Votes: 0

I'm sure one of the frustrations of being a Western enthusiast of Japanese food and culture is you're confronted every day with the absolute certainty that you will die ignorant. Votes: 0

Do not lose hope; St. Joseph also experienced moments of difficulty, but he never lost faith and was able to overcome them, in the certainty that God never abandons us. Votes: 0

The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way. Votes: 0

My friends call me a 'pace-setter.' Sometimes I am impatient, I think, but you must be fast and flexible in business because uncertainty is the only certainty in life. Votes: 0

La volupte unique et supre" me de l'amour g|"t dans la certitude de faire le mal. The unique, supreme pleasure of love consists in the certainty of doing evil. Votes: 0

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith. Votes: 0

Terrorism is based on two major pillars: One is injustice, and the other is a certainty of attitude, the notion that their version of the story is the correct one. Votes: 0

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made Votes: 0

It was one thing, after all, to know his feelings for Amanda hadn't changed; it was another thing entirely to face the future with the certainty that they never would. Votes: 0

Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land. Votes: 0

Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life. Votes: 0

Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying. Votes: 0

Joy adapts and changes, but it always endures, even as a flicker of light born of our personal certainty that, when everything is said and done, we are infinitely loved. Votes: 0

As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play. Votes: 0

To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life. Votes: 0

When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges. Votes: 0

As for the accusation of intellectual pride, surely the boot is on the other foot. Atheists don't claim to know anything with certainty -- it's the believers who know it all. Votes: 0

To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it. Votes: 0

In the midst of the flurry - clarity. In the midst of the storm - calm. In the midst of divided interests - certainty. In the many roads - a certain choice. Votes: 0

I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie. Votes: 0

If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be. Votes: 0

I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it. Votes: 0

So trust the process of your life unfolding, and know with certainty, through the peaks and valleys of your journey, that your soul rests safe and secure in the arms of God. Votes: 0

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach. Votes: 0

Et Tu, Babe' was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing; it's my whole life. Votes: 0

A man can reach into anything and turn it to his cause. It's not want, or desire, just certainty. Only be assured that whatever you reach into will reach into you in turn. Votes: 0

I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way. Votes: 0

We are all of us invented. We are all of us cobbled together from cartilage and dust. Few of us know with certainty the name of our maker. But I do... Bram Stoker. Votes: 0

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! Votes: 0

Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about. Votes: 0

Maybe under all that guilt and certainty that he couldn't love again, he still wanted me. I would have liked to have found out. But I didn't have the time. Instead, I punched him. Votes: 0

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone. Votes: 0

...the morning with the whole day waiting,full of promise,the nightof quiet, of no expectations, of rest.And the certainty of home, the one I live in,and the onethat lives in me. Votes: 0

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 sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose. Votes: 0

One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, Right. Now I understand how this is done. Votes: 0

I know the exact date that I began writing Twilight, because it was also the first day of swim lessons for my kids. So I can say with certainty that it all started on June 2, 2003. Votes: 0

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you. Votes: 0

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 my age I believe that with almost an increasing certainty. Votes: 0

One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, 'Right. Now I understand how this is done.' Votes: 0