I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don’t even need or want to look ‘intelligent’ anymore.

Maintaining vigilance is going to be a long and exhausting process. Nobody can say with any certainty when a pandemic virus will emerge.

It’s okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy.

When we get our spiritual house in order, we’ll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in darkness. Don’t expect...

Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.

Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that ensures justice and historical momentum in an imperfect world, because without imagination we...

I’m a girl.”When Deryn opened her eyes, the lady boffin was staring at her with no change of expression. “Indeed,” she said.Deryn’s mouth feel open. “You mean you…Did you barking know?””I had no idea at...

There is not merely a chance, but a full certainty that we will win the parliamentary elections.

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

Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.

In a race between danger and indecision, the difference between life and death comes down to confidence. Faith in our abilities, certainty in ourselves and the trust we put in others.

At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.

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

Things happen, and nothing is for sure, but you just have to keep going, believing that one day, you’ll find something that is.

I have no information whatsoever that tells me with certainty that any of the accusations, allegations, rumors, that have taken place are true.

My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises and falls. But that’s it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I’d loved...

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

Such is true joy’s absolute certainty,Its slow lit fuse that burns holesIn the shabby shroud of death forever.

To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God – maybe even day after day. Maybe he’s too great to stay compressed in the human mind. Maybe he splits it wide...

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

What could Maria call the time that opened ahead of her? The certainty of her hope? This rejuvenated air she was breathing? This incandescence, this bursting of a love at last without object?

Always doubtful is the one who always looks for certainty.

…Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was…

An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one’s heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for...

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will experience hardship and stress at some point.

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

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty

There isn’t any legacy carrier in the nation that can say with certainty that a bankruptcy filing is not possible.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

And it was like I knew, and that certainty planted itself in my belly like a warm secret.

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.

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

It’s not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.

The only certainty in life is that all things will certainly change.

The key is certainty. Businesses need certainty on risks and costs.

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...

I think it’s called being human, or something.

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything – that is the definition of conviction.

What everyone wanted, and what Scripps needed, was certainty … and that’s what we got.

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

It’s a picture that does not give certainty about the country’s stability.

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,...

It’s an attempt to bring certainty into an uncertain world. Soldiers do the same thing every occupation with a lot of uncertainty.

I shot a deaf man. And just to be sure, I used a silencer.

You’ve got to be sure of yourself beforeYou can ever win a prize.

Like the most of you, I was raised among people who knew – who were certain. They did not reason or investigate. They had no doubts. They knew that they had the truth. In their...

In God’s eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.

I like being right more than I like keeping friends. Certainly this leaves me lonely, but at least I’m always certain.