Certainty Quotes - Page 3

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

The more I see, the less I know.

All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

Meditation is about learning how to rest in uncertainty.

One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided.

Certainty is an unrealistic and unattainable ideal

The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.

Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

People always tell me with absolute certainty that they don't trust themselves.

Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.

... the body, normally, is never in question: our bodies are beyond question, or perhaps beneath question - they are simply, unquestionably, there. This unquestionability of the body, is, for Wittgenstein, the start and basis of all knowledge and certainty.

[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

What if rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, we accepted it and relaxed into it?

Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.

Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.

People dislike uncertainty so much that they will impose an order on it even when it doesn't exist.

Certainty a strange Ferris wheel of a statement!

If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.

The greatest good that can come to anyone is forming within them an absolute certainty of themselves, and of their relationship to the Universe, forever removing the sense of heaven as being outside of them.

When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

Certainty becomes you.

One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.