Certainty Quotes

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.

We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly.

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

As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

I would say that without any doubt he's the killer - the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty which I - there's no question that he was the killer of President Kennedy.

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.

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

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

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode.

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose.

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.

So when they don't have certainty, they go the other way. In Ohio, we have given them certainty and things have been improved. But if we can get a Romney presidency, they are going to get much better.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

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

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

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