Certainty Quotes
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
"The Second Coming" l. 1 (1921)
Salvador Minuchin, Michael D. Reiter, Charmaine Borda (2013). “The Craft of Family Therapy: Challenging Certainties”, p.4, Routledge
Thomas Henry Huxley, Henrietta A. Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and reflections”
Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1842). “The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected”, p.429
Harvard Law Review Natural Law Volume 32, Number 1, November 1918 (p. 40)
I will go on quietly and slowly, but I will go on firmly, and with a certainty of success.
Daniel O'Connell (1872). “Life and Speeches of Daniel O'Connell ....: Including Many Speeches Not in Other Collections”, p.187
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
Bertrand Russell (2016). “Why I Am Not a Christian”, p.21, Lulu Press, Inc
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.724, e-artnow (Open Publishing)