401 Quotes About Certainty

To say that one must live in uncertainty doesn’t begin to get at a tenuous, precarious nature of faith. The minute you begin to speak with certitude about God, he is gone. We praise people for having strong faith, but strength is only one part of that physical metaphor: one also needs FLEXIBILITY.

Oh no. Maybe I'd gotten too cocky. I was still relatively new to this friend business. Had I screwed up even asking? Should I have waited for her to offer up details?

I'm always unsure about people who are so sure of themselves.

Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.

People too often tolerate uncertainty prior to taking action; worse, some people believe that omniscience or infallibility are prerequisites for being certain, so they conclude that certainty (and therefore knowledge) is never possible. To any person who proclaims that "you can never be certain of anything", ask them: "are you sure?" and watch what happens.

The misconception of something being a certainty sometimes gets to me until I remember we can change most things consciously.

The future is certain. It is just not known.

One thing, however, is certain in life. No one survives it.

The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.