Certainty Quotes

The only certainty is that nothing is certain. (Pliny the Elder)
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
I am certain there is too much certainty in the world. View quote
Michael Crichton
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting. View quote
Stanisław Leszczyński
Doubt is a not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one. View quote
Voltaire
There is no certainty; there is only adventure. View quote
Roberto Assagioli
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. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave neither room nor demand for a theory of probabilities. View quote
George Boole
I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were. View quote
Hans Blix
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things. (Denis Diderot)
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom. View quote
Lord Byron
Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating. View quote
Carl von Clausewitz
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing. View quote
Isaac Newton
We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves. View quote
James Thurber
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty. View quote
George Eliot
. . . you know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es. View quote
George Eliot
He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty. (Samuel Johnson)
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. View quote
William Gibson
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. View quote
Tom Stoppard
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. View quote
Tom Stoppard
One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image. View quote
Timothy Garton Ash