If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is.
I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
For investor confidence, it is important that there is certainty about the future of Ireland in E.U.
Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.
Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor.
It was in the best interests of Zavala and other counties that we move forward with a farm bill and provide certainty to ranchers, farmers, food banks, and other providers.
I would say that without any doubt he's the killer - the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty which I - there's no question that he was the killer of President Kennedy.
With more than half of the American workforce without private pension coverage, Social Security provides economic certainty within a system that is fair, equitable, and easy to understand. You work hard, pay into the system, and the federal government makes a promise to pay back your earned benefits when you retire. It's that simple.
I don't judge my effectiveness by how many words I say. I think liberals often see nuances in things... Conservatives tend to see things in black and white. It gives them an air of certainty and conviction that might make them more comfortable to watch.
I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.
I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.
We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.
If there's one crime for which there has to be a certainty of punishment, it is gun violence.
There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it.
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.
If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.
I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.
A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.
The brain builds a version of the universe and projects this version of the universe like a bubble all around us. So I can say with some certainty, 'I think therefore I am.' But I cannot say, 'You think therefore you are,' because you are within my perceptual bubble.
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.
From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.
