(336 quotes found)
“I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it”
Woodrow T. Wilson
“No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.”
T.S. Eliot
“One learns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try”
Sophocles
“A barrel full of certainties won't roll very far.”
Gerd de Ley
“One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try”
Aristotle
“Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.”
Denis Diderot
“The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.”
May Sarton
“If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”
Voltaire
“If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.”
Lord Byron
