Certainty Quotes

My compulsive thoughts aren't even thoughts, they're absolute certainties and obeying them isn't a choice.

~ Paul Rudnick

And I will wait for Jarod to work for me. For free, cause if it's paid, it's work and not love, unless, of course he loves to work, in which case he’ll surely love working for me, because I love people who love to do that to love to do that.

~ Will Advise

Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.

~ Milan Kundera

Make an enemy of certainty and befriend doubt. When you can change your mind, you can change anything.

~ Kevin Ashton

I remember laughing at that moment, and I remember my son frowning at me in puzzlement. What I remember best of all, though, was the sudden certainty that the gods were with me, that they would fight for me, that my sword would be their sword. ‘We’re going to win,’ I told my son. I felt as if Odin or Thor had touched me. I had never felt more alive and never felt more certain. I knew there would be no more mistakes and that this was no dream.I had come to Bebbanburg and Bebbanburg would be mine.

~ Bernard Cornwell

The secret of the whole matter is that a habit is not the mere tendency to repeat a certain act, nor is it established by the mere repetition of the act. Habit is a fixed tendency to react or respond in a certain way to a given stimulus; and the formation of habit always involves the two elements, the stimulus and the response or reaction. The indolent lad goes to school not in response to any stimulus in the school itself, but to the pressure of his father's will; when that stimulus is absent, the reaction as a matter of course does not occur.

~ Edward O. Sisson

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

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with certainty that they possess the right are dark inside and darken the world outside with cruelty, pain, and injustice.

~ Saul D. Alinsky

Whatever doubt might rise, he knew that he was right. But the rightness was an intellectual rightness and the doubt emotional.

~ Clifford D. Simak

Always doubtful is the one who always looks for certainty.

~ Raheel Farooq

I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.

~ Andreas Vesalius

I could see it all. The hand on the shoulder, then the hug. The mouths that find each other through the tears, the moment when guilt and the certainty that things must go no further gives way to lust and the certainty that they cannot stop.

~ S.j. Watson

He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.

~ J.k. Rowling

Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.

~ J.k. Rowling

I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Anyone who takes a decided line in certain matters, is sure to lead all the rest.

~ Thomas Hughes

Miracles are like murders. After the first one, each becomes easier than the last for, with each success, the miracle-worker's certainty in himself becomes stronger.

~ Karen Maitland

Luck is a favorable thing out of an uncertainty. No such thing as luck when everything's certain.

~ Toba Beta

Others may not understand your joy and contentment because of your certainty about who you are and why you exist. Don't waste your time to explain.

~ Assegid Habtewold

...the morning with the whole day waiting,full of promise,the nightof quiet, of no expectations, of rest.And the certainty of home, the one I live in,and the onethat lives in me.

~ Karen Hesse

Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

~ Alan Lightman

I know with unqualified certainty that I want to die. But I also know with equivalent certainty that I won't do anything about it. That I will only remain here and wait for death to indulge me.

~ Sara Baume

What kind of husband would I be if I bet against my own marriage?'I smiled. 'The stupid kind. Didn't you listen to your dad when he told you not to bet against me?

~ Jamie Mcguire

In order for a god to be all-knowing, he must know even the fact of his own omniscience. But can he do this? He may know the totality of facts constituting the world; call this Y. But in order to know that he has mastered Y, he must also know that 'There are no facts unknown to me' — and this is beyond Y.It seems impossible that a god (or anyone) could ever be sure that nothing exists beyond his ken. It makes no sense to imagine [a god] arriving at this limit, peering beyond it (at what?), and satisfying himself no further facts exist. But without this certainty he cannot be sure of his own omniscience, and so does not know everything.A theist might argue that his god has created all the facts in existence. But an omniscient god would have to be sure of even this — that he is the sole creator, and that there are no facts unknown to him. And how could he come to this knowledge?

~ Roland Puccetti

Sometimes a woman is afraid to be without security or without certainty, for even a short time. She has more excuses than dogs have hairs. She must just simply dive in and stand not knowing what will happen next.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

To build refuges of my own making is to construct fortresses of sand at ocean’s edge, where the relentless tides of time will leave my most magnificently constructed walls as perfectly flat sand. And now that I am subject to the very tides that destroyed these walls of mine, I am left with the reality that my single and sole refuge can only be the God who created both tides and sand.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on I am not too sure.

~ H.l. Mencken

Perhaps, it is better to be decided than undecided. But it is certainly the best to stay decidedly undecided.

~ Raheel Farooq

In the Congress of the United States, Cromwell had known a good many men who were possessed of absolute certainty, and this he feared so much that he felt the only real and enduring evil on the face of the earth was unbending certainty, unshakable orthodoxy.

~ Howard Fast

A sensible man may fear certain possibilities, but don’t let fear turn possibility into certainty.

~ Mark Lawrence

Insurance companies sell what might happen tomorrow. Historians sell what certainly happened yesterday.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

~ Erich Fromm

There are no facts only interpretations.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Statistics are no substitute for judgement.

~ Henry Clay

Get your facts first and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.

~ Mark Twain

'For example' is not proof.

~ Jewish Proverb

A half truth like half a brick is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

~ Stephen Leacock

You are all you will ever have for certain .

~ June Havoc

Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is.

~ Voltaire

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.

~ Stanislaus