401 Quotes About Certainty
- Author Samuel Hopkins
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If we obstinately refuse to reform what we have implicitly declared to be wrong, and engaged to put away the holding of the Africans in slavery... have we not the great reason to fear, yea, may we not with great certainty conclude, God will withdraw his kind protection from us, and punish us yet seven times more?
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- Author Steve Hackett
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Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.
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- Author Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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- Author Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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- Author Robert James
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In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, no matter how many lifetimes you live.
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- Author Samuel Johnson
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He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty
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- Author Jon Katz
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Dog rescue remains a gamble, of course. For all the good will, hard work, and noble motivation, nobody can really predict with certainty how a traumatized, dislocated dog will respond in a new environment.
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- Author Mark Krikorian
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These young players coming out of their clubs and high schools want to know they have a chance to get to their national teams (by playing here). We felt we could say that with all certainty before, but now it makes the claim even stronger.
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- Author Rem Koolhaas
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The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.
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