#Certainty

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."

"Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated."

"In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie."

"He who asserts belief with absolute certainty knows nothing of faith and makes himself into a fool. He who is wise, upon realizing they have done this, recants and searches themselves for further enlightenment."

"I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably."

"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

"You’ve got to be sure of yourself beforeYou can ever win a prize."

"To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness."

"Doubter wants proof which contributes nothing to her faith."

"There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing."

"If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong."

"Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessarycondition for knowledge."

"If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics."

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."

"Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing."

"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."

"I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am."

"We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck."

"I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself."

"Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason."