Quotes of: Certainty Keyword

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 everythi...

Yehuda Berg

In fact, certainty exists in very different modes. The kind of certainty afforded by a verification that has passed through doubt is different from the immediate living certainty with which all ends and values appear in human consciousness when they ...

Truth and Method

I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.

On Certainty

Quit not certainty for hope.

Traditional

Mistrust is the mother of certainty.

French

When I was young, I lacked certainty, too,” he says. “I have the certainty, now, of not needing certainty. I have the certainty, of uncertainty. The peace, with being uncertain. All is good. All is holy. Whatever you choose, it can be fine. Hatre...

All That Is Unspoken

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Ashley Montagu

To believe in certainty, we must begin by doubting.

Polish

To believe with certainty, we must begin by doubting.

Polish

People are looking for certainty. The more complex the world becomes, the more people look for people to give them certainty and tell them what to do. During the past few years of actively thinking about this, there is one thing that I have accepted:...

Noreena Hertz

Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties.

Murray Gell-Mann

Who can say with certainty that one will live to see the morrow?

Tibetan

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.

Richard Stallman

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

Science and Creationism

Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it.

Men Explain Things to Me

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Francis Bacon

The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty,and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered something Father Tom had told me--that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includ...

Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

What wise men suppose is worth more than the certainties of fools.

Arabian

You would do better to be someone's victim rather than someone's certainty.

Sri Lankan