These measures should restore consumer confidence and bring certainty to the market,

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 all. But I make it a policy never to appear surprised.” Dr. Barlow sighed, staring out the window. “Though on...

We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state that is to follow. An intelligence knowing all the forces acting in nature at a given instant, as well as the momentary positions of all things in the universe, would be...

…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…

If you do not know where you come from, then you don’t know where you are, and if you don’t know where you are, then you don’t know where you’re going. And if you don’t know where you’re going, you’re probably going wrong.

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 stop trying to learn and grow.

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

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

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

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.

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

The market lacks certainty and awaits something or someone to take the lead.

If anyone doesn’t agree with you, the truth is on your side.

I remember, in no particular order:—a shiny inner wrist;—steam rising from a wet sink as a hot frying pan is laughingly tossed into it;—gouts of sperm circling a plughole, before being sluiced down the full length of a tall house;—a river rushing nonsensically upstream, its wave and wash lit by half a dozen chasing torchbeams;—another...

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

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.

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.

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 never have to fear negative emotions again. But in chasing all that, we close down the very faculties that permit...

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 everybody else.

Only by digging deep down to the core of our true self can we come to a place of inner certainty. Our underlying values and priorities are our personal navigational stars on life’s journey—essential tools to chart a life course that embraces what matters most to us.

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

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.

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 and been loved, but I had nothing to show. It was a singularly plain, featureless landscape. I felt like I...

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,

Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true.

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.

There you go again, declaring the exact inverse of your experience. You human pups are so full of the things you’re sure of. Sit down and listen for a change.

A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional objectivity. It would be more nearly true to say that it is based upon wonder, adventure and hope.

Deeply convinced of the reality of the divine will, he (Lincoln) had no patience at all with any who were perfectly sure they knew the details of the divine will.

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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.

He who asserts belief with absolute certainty knows nothing of faith and makes himself into a fool. He who is wise, upon realizing they have done this, recants and searches themselves for further enlightenment.

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

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.

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.

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

Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.

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

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.

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.

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as one thing—one great, glorious thing. Whether it is differential topology, or functional analysis, or homological algebra, it is all one thing. … They are intimately interconnected, they are all facets of the same...

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

We need to see greater predictability and certainty before the stock would look attractive again. I think earnings estimates are going to come down substantially this year and probably next year if, in fact, they go ahead with the de-mothballing of two rigs.

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.

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