Certainty Quotes

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

Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.

People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty

Claiming certainty without corroborating evidence is stupid.

Certainty is the enemy of change.

There are no means of attaining faith and certainty except through the Qur'an.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

I will go on quietly and slowly, but I will go on firmly, and with a certainty of success.

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

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

If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer

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

The certainty of our salvation rests on the character of God.

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

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

I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties.

Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still

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

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

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.

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

The only certainty life contains is death.

Vast ills have followed a belief in certainty.

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

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

The present is the only reality and the only certainty.

What can we say with certainty?

Certainty is an unrealistic and unattainable ideal

The more I see, the less I know.

Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.

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

... 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.

Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.

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

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

Certainty a strange Ferris wheel of a statement!

Certainty becomes you.

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

One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.

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

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

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

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

You can safely appeal to the UN in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

The only certainty is that there is no certainty.

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

We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.

Certainty abolishes hope, and robs us of renewal.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.