Top Certainty Quotes
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
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
A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.
Bret Harte
Nelson A. Miles 
Ruth Ann Minner 
Henri Poincare 
Richard Stallman 
James Lovelock 
Garrett Hardin 
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Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Vaclav Havel 
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Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.
George Boole
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
Hans Blix
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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.
William Barclay
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Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
Bertrand Russell
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One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image.
Timothy Garton Ash
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For those with ambition, reality is more of a creation than an unalterable certainty.
Lori Guinn
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Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.
Ruth Ann Minner
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Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
Denis Diderot
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The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts. And then let's give some more tax breaks to small businesses and large. And then maybe the American people will have some confidence.
John McCain
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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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