Motivational Quotes

Certainty

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

- Durant, William J.

Best Quotes about Certainty

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Franklin, Benjamin

Only one thing is certain -- that is, nothing is certain. If this statement is true, it is also false.

Paradox, Ancient

If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.

Camus, Albert

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

Pliny The Elder

Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, Chinese

Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.

Sterne, Laurence

When we are not sure, we are alive.

Greene, Graham

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Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

Porchia, Antonio

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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth; and truth rewarded me.

Warner, Sylvia Ashton

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There are only two things you HAVE TO do in life. You HAVE TO die. You HAVE TO live until you die. You make up all the rest.

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He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.

Williams, Tad

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I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time.

Billings, Josh

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Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

Keats, John

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If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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The more I see the less I know for sure.

Lennon, John

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The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain.

Kennedy, John F.

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What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.

Russell, Bertrand

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The present is the only reality and the only certainty.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

22.

There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.

Bowman, Scotty

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Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

Voltaire

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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

Durant, William J.

25.

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

Meredith, Owen

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We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.

Bruno, Giordano

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There is nothing certain except the unforeseen.

Fraude

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If you have a choice between certainty and hope, choose certainty every time.

29.

There is nothing certain, but the uncertain.

Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas