Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.
Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand.
Watercolour painting is notoriously difficult - so much depends on directness and speed, and certainty of intention. Tentative or fumbling touches are disastrous, for they cannot be obliterated easily.
The first indication that we are killing our dreams is lack of time. The second indication of the death of our dreams is certainty. The third indication that our dreams are dead is peace.
I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning. . . as does death.
There are two options for any society: total prohibition as in a totalitarian state, or total license. Both avoid the ardours of decision. Both have the attraction of certainty. The difficult option is to decide where the line should be drawn and this, surely, is the responsiblity of any civilized and democratic country.
There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.
I love you," he said. "You're more dear to my heart than I ever knew anyone else can be. And I've made you cry; and there I'll stop. " She was crying, but not because of his words. It was because of a certainty she refused to consider while she sat before him.
Those willing to trade freedom for certainty are certain to find the cure worse than the ailment.
A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.
One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have once come to light; but the image of art, that infinite variable of perception and expression in the individual, - that is not easily re-created, at least, not with certainty and in its original fulness.
In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God.
One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided.
Certainty abolishes hope, and robs us of renewal.
Certainty becomes you.
Who is so brave and so noble that they could hurl themselves at infinity without any question, with complete trust and complete certainty that that infinity will destroy them forever?
We are all of us invented. We are all of us cobbled together from cartilage and dust. Few of us know with certainty the name of our maker. But I do. . . Bram Stoker.
One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.
In their leaders, advisers, and experts, people much prefer overconfidence, total certainty, to any kind of doubt.
One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.