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It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability.
A lot of people hear me attacking their certainty. I don't have any interest in doing that. I'm interested in penetrating the meaning of certainty.
How sure we are that everyone's watching. How sure we are that no one sees.
The only thing we can be certain of in this life is that we can be certain of nothing.
It's one thing to be certain, but you can be certain and you can be wrong.
Is the any certainty like Faith?
There are things you're certain about. That you'd bet your life on. Things that you just know. You know the heat of a fire will burn you. Water will quench your thirst. She is one of those things; the most unerring certainty of my life.
Probabilities - the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.
The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties
Hope is certainty.
Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
Absolute certainty is the greatest of all illusions.
What was sureness and certainty? I used to hold on to certainty like a light inside me, hoping it would chase out the dark unknown. But certainty was a phantom strung together on hopes. It would lead you astray at the first chance.
Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.
Is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.Nat. Hist., ii. 7.]
Only the fools are certain and assured.
Scientists do not believe in fundamental and absolute certainties. For the scientist, certainty is never an end, but a search; not the ordering of certainty, but its exploration. For the scientist, certainty represents the highest degree of probability.
Nothing is more certain than uncertainties: / Fortune is full of fresh variety; / Constant in nothing but inconstancy.
I am certain of nothing but the beauty of imagination.
There are times I almost think I am not sure of what I absolutely know. Very often find confusion in conclusion I concluded long ago. In my head are many facts that, as a student, I have studied to procure. In my head are many facts of which I wish I was more certain I was sure.
How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?
There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.
Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.
Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics.
All I feel sure of are questions.
Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.
Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.
Our certainties never really hold water. One day you feel like dying and the next you realize all you had to do was go down a few stairs to find the light switch so you could see things a bit more clearly.
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be.
It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.
Nothing is so certain as that which is certain after doubts. Shaking settles and roots.
The nature of the spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty.
There are varieties of uncertainty that are more illuminating, and even more enjoyable, than certainty.
Nothing in life is sure, my son. Except the promise of death.
Absolute certainity might seem comforting, but is actually proof that you've given up
When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.
Sometimes certainty can sound an awful lot like madness.
Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.
There is nothing, nothing certain but the nothingness of all that is comprehensible to us, and the grandeur of something incomprehensible, but more important!
Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life; security is an insipid thing; and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.
Without being sure of something, we can not begin to think about everything elses
Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows
Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.
Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.
What a man has, so much he is sure of.
Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams,
Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical,
I and this mystery here we stand.
I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.
Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.
The only time a dead certainty applies is in a dream world.
Certainty often hides fear.
I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.
We want to have certainties and no doubts
results and no experiments
without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt and results only through experiment.
In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime!
There are many degrees of Probable, some nearer Truth than others, in the determining of which lies the chief exercise of our Judgment.
Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.
There's no such thing as an "absolute guarantee" in this world.
We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion
Few things were so sure and simple that they could be taken at face value.
Among the many certainties whose lack he complained of, one alone is present, and it is that all things appear to us as they appear to us, and it is impossible for them to appear otherwise.
There's a certain confidence that comes with being sure about the way the world works.
Vast ills have followed a belief in certainty.
Certainty is a cruel mindset.
Certainty is the enemy of mankind. If you're certain about everything, you have the Inquisition, you have Nazis and you have - that certainty is something to be guarded about.
Certainty ... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it.
Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.
Though what could anyone really say these days with one hundred percent certainty?
There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find out, straining reason, they then publish to the world matter of contention and jangling.
The certainty about the uncertain (in view to life) is that it will remain uncertain till the time its certain.
If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.
Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.
A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.
The only unchangable certainty in life is that nothing is unchangable or certain.
The ONE thing that is most certain in life is CHANGE ;)
Certainty creates strength. Certainty gives one something upon which to learn. Uncertainty creates weakness. Uncertainty makes one tentative if not fearful, and tentative steps, even when in the right direction, may not overcome significant obstacles.
The only certainty is that we shall never be certain.
Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity.
Nothing is as certain as a closed mind
Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessary
condition for knowledge.
Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.
Not only do you have to trust the definite, you must also trust the uncertainty.
Certainty ends inquiry.
Not all is certainty in our world, Karigan. If it were there'd be no opportunity for faith; and then it would be a very dull existence.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.
In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.
It is certain because it is impossible
Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.
The more sure you are, the more wrong you can be.
They aren't many sure things in life, but one thing I do know is that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions.
It is not surprising that in talking about uncertainty we should lean heavily on facts, just as the court of law does when interrogating witnesses. Facts form a sort of bedrock on which we can build the shifting sands of uncertainty.
Nothing is as dangerous as a sure thing.
The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.