Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
The only certainties in life are “time” and “change.” The question you must ask yourself: is now the time to change?
I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning. As does death.
Father Brendan Flynn: Even if you feel certainty, it is an emotion not a fact.
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
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.
Customers loves certainty, make sure you give it to them.
Confusion is not a bad thing. It's not doubt that makes a man mad. It's certainty.
We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is 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. People are terrif...
Like the body craves oxygen, the mind is desperate for certainty. It believes that without a safe foothold on reality, it will die. But the fascinating thing is that the illusion of certainty is exactly the opposite of safety because it hardens and n...
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
I will rejoice in the multifariousness of nature and leave the chimera of certainty to politicians and preachers.
Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.
We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.
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 we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
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.
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.
Where the quest for knowledge is relatively, and now almost absolutely, unrestrained, the public benefit will be great, especially where the certainty of the law ensures that knowledge is rewarded. This is exactly the combination that is the foundati...
U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
Joy is not a denial of painful circumstances, but a certainty that He is at work while we are in them. EL
