Top Certainty Quotes
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
Pliny the Elder
The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.
Rem Koolhaas
We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.
Peter Drucker
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
A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.
Bret Harte
Henri Poincare 
Adam Smith 
George Byron 
Timothy Garton Ash 
Richard Stallman 
Stanislaus I 
Story Musgrave 
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The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
Bertrand Russell 
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Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor.
John Woolman
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Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.
Bruce Catton
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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
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But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.
Christian Lous Lange
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As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.
Bridget Riley
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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
Henry David Thoreau
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Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.
Alan Bullock
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For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Francois de La RochefoucauldHenry David ThoreauBenjamin Franklin VoltaireThomas CarlyleBlaise PascalBertrand RussellGeorge EliotCharles BaudelaireAnthony TrollopeDenis DiderotStanislav GrofErich FrommHannah ArendtPeter Drucker
Will DurantVincent Van GoghOliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.William GlasserHenri PoincareChristian Lous LangeRudyard KiplingPhil DonahueJames LovelockEwan McGregorTom StoppardNicolaus CopernicusGeorge ByronHenry A. WallaceJohn McCain
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