| "Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it'" »Johann K. Lavater |
| "Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof." »Ashley Montague |
| "In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain." »Pliny the Elder |
| "To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting." »Stanislaus Lescynski |
| "Inquiry is fatal to certainty." »Will Durant |
| "Moral certainty is intellectual immorality." »Kedar Joshi |
| "Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind." »May Sarton |
| "We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread." »Clive Staples Lewis |
| "Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one." »Voltaire |
| "Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists." »Thomas Huxley |
| "I don't believe anything. I only know some things to a greater degree of certainty than others. - from When Galaxies Collide" »John Ryman |
| "Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty." »Leon Wieseltier |
| "Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out." »Vaclav Havel |
| "The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers." »Erich Fromm |
| "Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther." »Isaac Watts |
| "As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls." »M. Cartmill |
| "Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
| "Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late." »Unknown |
| "I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the 24 hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that ... absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't , matters not one jot. The possibility is always there." »Monica Baldwin |
| "When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless." »Bertrand Russell |
| "It is suggested that, in domestic violence at least, the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detection and punishment." »Colin Greenwood |
| "When salvation is viewed as man's program, it is left up to man as to whether he will let God do this or that, but when it is viewed as God's program, there is a confidence and a certainty that no one whom God regenerates will be a carnal Christian." »Michael Horton |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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