401 Quotes About Certainty

The certainty of mathematics depends on its complete abstract generality.

Certainty is absence of infinity, infinity is presence of uncertainty.

But the people who struggle against what we call totalitarian regimes cannot function with queries and doubts. They, too, need certainties and simple truths to make the multitudes understand, to provoke collective tears.

Make an enemy of certainty and befriend doubt. When you can change your mind, you can change anything.

Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.

There you go again, declaring the exact inverse of your experience. You human pups are so full of the things you're sure of. Sit down and listen for a change.

I know with unqualified certainty that I want to die. But I also know with equivalent certainty that I won't do anything about it. That I will only remain here and wait for death to indulge me.

Insurance companies sell what might happen tomorrow. Historians sell what certainly happened yesterday.

What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick! It’s a sure thing! It’s sure thing in a world where nothing is sure; it has a mathematical certainty in a world where those of us who long for some kind of certainty are forced to settle for crossword puzzles.