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

At the end of the day, from an Ericsson perspective I just want to see our customers have certainty around their investments, certainty around the market environment in which they play and to be as...

Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else’s simply because I know why I said what I said.

To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

From the house of unbeliefto true religionis a single breath;From the world of doubtto certaintyis a single breath;Enjoy this precious single breath,for the harvestof our whole livesis that same one breath.

If the opposite of certainty is doubt, humility must lie somewhere between the two,

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

What can you do with a person who says that he is absolutely uncertain about everything, and that he is absolutely certain about that?

El principio de la ciencia es saber que ignoramos. El mundo, que es el lugar donde estamos; la carne, que es lo que somos; el Diablo, que es aquello que deseamos: los tres, en un...

At the moment I cannot say with 100 percent certainty that I will play on Friday.

The changes we make in life often happen when we have a degree of certainty. However, the pain of our past failures and the fears of our peers often fuel our uncertainty. This inability to...

Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one’s voice.

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

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?

If art made you think, then this was Art. Staring at the ball, made of layers and layers of cloth, I wondered about the glass marble at its heart. What if you wanted to reach...

Doubter wants proof which contributes nothing to her faith.

Beauty is an advantage, smile is guarantee.

In some cases, I am able to respect what so many call bigots. Such people have a more solid foundation for drawing their lines when it comes to the security of their ways and quite...

Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true.

From whomsoever one hears anything, it is wisdom to understand the true import of it.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Happiness is a perceptual reality, not an absolute certainty.

Obviously, the Guidant board favors the certainty associated with J&J’s offer. They’ve basically gotten the FTC to sign off with J&J. They just need shareholder approval.

A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never...

I believe in intuitions and inspirations…I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.

I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion with my previous researches. Disgusted at my want of success, I went away...

At the moment, I cannot say with hundred percent certainty that I will play on Friday.

But was it worth anything?That’s the hopelessness of it. The openness of it. The part of it I can never understand. I am afraid of ambiguity and certainity and permanence and impermanence. And so is...

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

Nothing consoles and comforts like certainty does.

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.

It must be an odd person indeed that can say for certain they are normal.

It’s okay not to know all the answers. It’s better to admit our ignorance than to believe answers that might be wrong. Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s already there.

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

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

One last thing,” it never is. Unless they die right after speaking. Make sure that they do. Check their pulse to be certain.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessarycondition for knowledge.

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

It appears, from all this, that our eyes are uncertain. Two persons look at the same clock and there is a difference of two or three minutes in their reading of the time. One has...

I’m comfortable with the unknown — that’s the point of science. There are places out there, billions of places out there, that we know nothing about. And the fact that we know nothing about them...

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.

In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

Through positive thinking and related approaches, we seek the safety and solid ground of certainty, of knowing how the future will turn out, of a time in the future when we’ll be ceaselessly happy and...

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

Customers loves certainty, make sure you give it to them.

It can be a good thing if deeper theology, or philosophy, only makes one more uncertain. It may lead to a healthy doubt; he may throw his hands up saying, ‘God, I just don’t know...

This did not rise to the level of certainty which should be required for presidential speeches, and CIA should have ensured that it was removed,

There is no certainty about a resolution,

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.