(336 quotes found)
“All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.”
Charles W. Eliot
“To believe with certainty, we must begin by doubting”
Polish Proverb
“Doubt cannot override a certainty”
The Talmud
“Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.”
Karl von Clausewitz
“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.”
William Lyon Phelps
“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.”
Peter F. Drucker
“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.”
Dylan Thomas
“The certainty with which a religious belief is held is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity”
Donald Morgan
“More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity”
Francois Gautier
“From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.”
Tom Stoppard
