Certainty Quotes

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

Bad, Different, Confuse

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.
Hannah Arendt

Against, Everyday, Happens

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?
Garrett Hardin

Trust, Family, Fear

Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Hard, Destiny, Learned

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

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
William Glasser

Education, Challenge, Domination

Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.
Dylan Thomas

Bad, Until, Conviction

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

Nothing, Matters

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

Religion, God, Scientist

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.
James Lovelock

Faith, Trust, Religion

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.
William Gibson

Human, Eyes, Rich

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.
William Barclay

Through, Jesus, Lord

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
Anthony Trollope

May, Become, Fortune

The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.
Jeffrey Kluger

Faith, Religion, Best

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

Between, Earth, Surface

I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.
Phil Donahue

Doubt, Moved, Rebellion

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.
Richard Stallman

Best, Whether, Ethics

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.
Stanislav Grof

Life, Death, Study

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

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.
Wislawa Szymborska

Poetry, Writing, Born

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
Roberto Assagioli

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
Edward Coke

Mother, Quiet, Cause

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.
William Lyon Phelps

Yourself, Powerful, Impossible

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
May Sarton

Mind, Opposite, Minute

The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.
Rem Koolhaas

Fast, Consensus, Bubbles

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.
Loren Eiseley

Mind, Human, May

I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way.
Ewan McGregor

Work, Parents, Through

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

Hope, Give, Belief

Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.
Geraldine Brooks

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.
Richard Dreyfuss

Ignorance, Living, Process

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