Certainty Quotes - Page 4

The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

An obsession with control generally seems to reflect a fear of uncertainty.

Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. String theory does so again because a point particle is replaced by a string, which is more spread out.

Life's most precious gift is uncertainty.

Just because someone seems to have more certainty, doesn't mean they're right.

Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty.

Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.

There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.

Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.

There is no such thing as zero uncertainty.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

The only certainty is that there is no certainty.

That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have.

We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

Certainty abolishes hope, and robs us of renewal.

Uncertainty is a personal matter; it is not the uncertainty but your uncertainty.

You can safely appeal to the UN in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.

I never cling on to hope or certainty. They're the enemies of peace.

Change is the investor's only certainty.

The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform.

The only certainty is uncertainty

If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet.

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.

Uncertainty is the necessary companion of all explorers.