Quotes about certainty

"If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties."

Bacon, Francis on certainty
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"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."

Bacon, Francis on certainty
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"To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice."

Bierce, Ambrose on certainty   

"I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time."

Billings, Josh on certainty   

"There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing."

Bowman, Scotty on certainty   

"We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all."

Bruno, Giordano on certainty   

"There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing."

Burns, Robert on certainty   

"We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously."

Camus, Albert on certainty   

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

Carlyle, Thomas on certainty   

"Inquiry is fatal to certainty."

Durant, William J. on certainty
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"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

Franklin, Benjamin on certainty
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"Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."

Franklin, Benjamin on certainty
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"There is nothing certain except the unforeseen."

Fraude on certainty   

"When we are not sure, we are alive."

Greene, Graham on certainty   

"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."

Keats, John on certainty
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"The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain."

Kennedy, John F. on certainty
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"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."

Kipling, Rudyard on certainty
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"The more I see the less I know for sure."

Lennon, John on certainty
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"It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull."

Mencken, H. L. on certainty
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"Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!"

Meredith, George on certainty   

"There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it."

Meredith, Owen on certainty   

"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on certainty
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"Only one thing is certain -- that is, nothing is certain. If this statement is true, it is also false."

Paradox, Ancient on certainty   

"In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain."

Pliny The Elder on certainty
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"The only certainty is that nothing is certain."

Pliny The Elder on certainty   

"Certainties are arrived at only on foot."

Porchia, Antonio on certainty   

"There is nothing certain, but the uncertain."

Proverb on certainty   

"To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous."

Proverb, Chinese on certainty
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"What men want is not knowledge, but certainty."

Russell, Bertrand on certainty   

"The present is the only reality and the only certainty."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on certainty   

"Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat."

Sterne, Laurence on certainty   

"Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty."

Twain, Mark on certainty
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"There are only two things you HAVE TO do in life. You HAVE TO die. You HAVE TO live until you die. You make up all the rest."

Unknown, Source on certainty
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"If you have a choice between certainty and hope, choose certainty every time."

Unknown, Source on certainty   

"Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one."

Voltaire on certainty
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"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth; and truth rewarded me."

Warner, Sylvia Ashton on certainty
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"He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder."

Williams, Tad on certainty   

"If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig on certainty   

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."

Yeats, William Butler on certainty