Certain Quotes - Page 18

Uncertainty is the necessary companion of all explorers.

I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.

The fraudster's greatest liability is the certainty that the fraud is too clever to be detected.

There are times when one certain snow condition is great for one particular brand of skis.

Investors don't like uncertainty.

Indecision is the key to flexibility.

Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.

People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent.

There is a fear of voluptuousness that is itself voluptuous, just as a certain fear of death can itself be deadly.

A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses.

It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present.

Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.

Certain majors [lables] just know what they're doin', and got a good grip on the dynamic of what's happening, and some don't.

There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.

The hairs stand up on the back of my neck at certain music.

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

If we don't discipline ourselves, God will make certain we are disciplined by others.

We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

We never have 100 percent certainty. We never have it. If you wait until you have 100 percent certainty, something bad is going to happen on the battlefield.

The more we want certain situations, the more we find ourself stuck in situations we do not want.