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

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.

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.

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

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.

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...

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.

What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick! It’s...

No one knows for sure about the future. But if you feel reluctant to plan something about it, then someone with guts would define it for you.

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.

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

Doubter wants proof which contributes nothing to her faith.

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...

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

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.

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...

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.

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

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...