Quote: If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Quote: If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.
Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Quote: To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
Author: Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''
Quote: I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time.
Author: Josh Billings 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer
Quote: There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.
Author: Scotty Bowman American Hockey Coach
Quote: We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.
Author: Giordano Bruno 1548-1600, Italian Philosopher, Scientist
Quote: There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
Author: Robert Burns 1759-1796, Scottish Poet
Quote: We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.
Author: Albert Camus 1913-1960, French Existential Writer
Quote: One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
Quote: Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
Author: William J. Durant 1885-1981, American Historian, Essayist
Quote: Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: There is nothing certain except the unforeseen.
Author: Fraude
Quote: When we are not sure, we are alive.
Author: Graham Greene 1904-1991, British Novelist
Quote: I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
Author: John Keats 1795-1821, British Poet
Quote: The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain.
Author: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA
Quote: A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
Author: Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936, British Author of Prose, Verse
Quote: The more I see the less I know for sure.
Author: John Lennon 1940-1980, British Rock Musician
Quote: It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
Author: H. L. Mencken 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist
Quote: Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
Author: George Meredith 1828-1909, British Author
Quote: There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
Author: Owen Meredith 1831-1891, British Politician, Poet
Quote: Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher
Quote: Only one thing is certain -- that is, nothing is certain. If this statement is true, it is also false.
Author: Ancient Paradox
Quote: In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain.
Author: Pliny The Elder c.23-79, Roman Neophatonist
Quote: The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
Author: Pliny The Elder c.23-79, Roman Neophatonist
Quote: Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
Author: Antonio Porchia
Quote: There is nothing certain, but the uncertain.
Author: Proverb
Quote: To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin
Quote: What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.
Author: Bertrand Russell 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist
Quote: The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860, German Philosopher
Quote: Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.
Author: Laurence Sterne 1713-1768, British Author
Quote: Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: If you have a choice between certainty and hope, choose certainty every time.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: There are only two things you HAVE TO do in life. You HAVE TO die. You HAVE TO live until you die. You make up all the rest.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
Author: Voltaire 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer
Quote: I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth; and truth rewarded me.
Author: Sylvia Ashton Warner
Quote: He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.
Author: Tad Williams American Author
Quote: If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889-1951, Austrian Philosopher
Quote: The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
Author: William Butler Yeats 1865-1939, Irish Poet, Playwright.