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Certainty Quotes

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Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment
Cesare Beccaria

Crimes can be more effectively deterred through the assurance of sanctions rather than their harshness.
Authors on Certainty Quotes: Friedrich Nietzsche Pliny the Elder Socrates Ludwig Wittgenstein Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Tony Robbins Ambrose Bierce Voltaire Oswald Chambers Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Michael Faraday Daniel O'Connell Simone Weil Samuel L. Jackson Nicolaus Copernicus Chris Bohjalian Chip Kidd L. Ron Hubbard Julian Barnes Emile Coue Timothy Keller Kenneth Arrow A. J. P. Taylor Will Durant Margaret Heffernan Louis J. Freeh Djuna Barnes Robert Rubin Jonathan Cainer Edgar Allan Poe Thomas Carlyle Guy de Maupassant Anne Lamott
2.
Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.
Leonhard Euler

Rationality is the cornerstone of all knowledge we gain.
3.
People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty
Virginia Satir

Individuals opt for the assurance of wretchedness rather than the distress of ambiguity.
4.
Claiming certainty without corroborating evidence is stupid.
Han Fei

5.
Certainty is the enemy of change.
Salvador Minuchin

6.
There are no means of attaining faith and certainty except through the Qur'an.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

7.
Certitude is not the test of certainty.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

8.
I will go on quietly and slowly, but I will go on firmly, and with a certainty of success.
Daniel O'Connell

9.
Through patience and certainty, leadership in the religion is obtained.
Ibn Taymiyyah

10.
In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
Pliny the Elder

11.
If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
Ajahn Chah

12.
It is the certainty that you are about to recover, that brings results, not the hope.
Emile Coue

13.
The certainty of our salvation rests on the character of God.
F.B. Meyer

14.
Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.
Friedrich Nietzsche

15.
I believe faith is not certainty but the courage to live with uncertainty.
Jonathan Sacks

16.
I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties.
Isaac Newton

17.
Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
Wislawa Szymborska

18.
I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd.
Edgar Allan Poe

19.
It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.
Henri Poincare

20.
Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.
Friedrich Nietzsche

21.
Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?
Philip Yancey

22.
The only certainty life contains is death.
Patricia Briggs

23.
Vast ills have followed a belief in certainty.
Kenneth Arrow

24.
If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

25.
The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
Arthur Schopenhauer

26.
What can we say with certainty?
Voltaire

27.
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
Socrates

28.
The more I see, the less I know.
Michael Franti

29.
Certainty is an unrealistic and unattainable ideal
William Lane Craig

30.
Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
Michael Faraday

31.
Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.
Peter Elbow

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... the body, normally, is never in question: our bodies are beyond question, or perhaps beneath question - they are simply, unquestionably, there. This unquestionability of the body, is, for Wittgenstein, the start and basis of all knowledge and certainty.
Oliver Sacks

33.
Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.
Chip Kidd

34.
Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.
Keith Devlin

35.
[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.
Elie Wiesel

36.
Certainty a strange Ferris wheel of a statement!
John Allen Paulos

37.
If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.
Henry Miller

38.
Certainty becomes you.
Tessa Dare

39.
Just because someone seems to have more certainty, doesn't mean they're right.
Tony Robbins

40.
One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.
Marvin Minsky

41.
Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty.
Timothy Keller

42.
The only certainty is that there is no certainty.
Robert Rubin

43.
That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have.
Richard Bach

44.
We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

45.
Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.
Will Durant

46.
Certainty abolishes hope, and robs us of renewal.
Neil Postman

47.
I never cling on to hope or certainty. They're the enemies of peace.
Anthony Hopkins

48.
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
Thomas Carlyle

49.
You can safely appeal to the UN in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
Conor Cruise O'Brien

50.
Change is the investor's only certainty.
Thomas Rowe Price, Jr.