Quotes About Certainty

I adore the past. So much more restful than the present. So much more dependable than the future.

Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

The things of another world being distant, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconvenience, we must frequently revolve their certainty and importance.

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

The future holds no terrors for a person who knows how process inevitably unfolds. They are always right and with it each moment.

For investor confidence, it is important that there is certainty about the future of Ireland in E.U.

I won't say 'See you tomorrow' because that would be like predicting the future, and I'm pretty sure I can't do that.

It isn't very logical to live my life on goundless supposition. I have to assume the truth of the moment is the truth of the future. - Leah

I have learned that nothing is certain except for the need to have strong risk management, a lot of cash, the willingness to invest even when the future is unclear, and great people.

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

Your goal is not to know every detail of the future. Your goal is to hold the hand of the One who does and never, ever let go.

Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches.

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

Anyone can believe when God is already moving. But real faith is when you step out when it seems that God is not moving.

To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without, being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can do for those who study it.

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

Woman Law: My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

Some people get lust, and love mixed up. Lust is when someone guesses at first there in love but really there not they just assume. Love is when someone knows for certain there in love they don't second guess.

She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.

we base our lives more on what we believe than on what we actually know.

Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.

Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.

Looking? —Ah . . . no . . . —Then how you're gonna know when you found it?