Quotes of: Certainty Keyword

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

Tom Stoppard

At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.

On Certainty

The only certainty in life is that it is uncertain.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

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

Richard Dreyfuss

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessary condition for knowledge.

Kedar Joshi

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

Henry A. Wallace

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

Robin S. Sharma

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!

George Meredith

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

Bret Harte

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.

Wislawa Szymborska

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.

Robert Winston

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

Joseph Glanvill

To believe with certainty, somebody said, one has to begin by doubting.

A Severe Mercy

Certainty is missing the point entirely.

Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

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

On the Prowl

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

Paul Auster

Passion is the desire to do something with fervor. It is the certainty that one is going to accomplish their dreams.

Subhan Zein

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

Thomas Carlyle

The thing the Buddhists and the Sufis have in common is a belief that religious certainties are destructive.

Luke Rhinehart

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.

Tom Stoppard

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld