Certainty Quotes

There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.

He who will determine… against that which he knows, because there may be something which he knows not; he that can set hypothetical possibility against acknowledged certainty, is not to be admitted among reasonable beings.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the Heart’s affections and the Truth of the Imagination.

When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.

The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

Too much subtlety in law is condemned, and so much exactitude destroys exactness.

There is nothing certain in a man’s life but that he must lose it.

That is sufficiently certain which can be made certain.

Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.