If you forsake a certainty and depend on an uncertainty, you will lose both the certainty and the uncertainty.
Certainty Quotes
It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
We must distinguish between the sound certainly and the sham . . .and then, when certainly is attained, we must remember that it is not the only good that we can buy at too high a price.
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
They do things better with logarithms.
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable… but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, “I knew my son was mortal.” So we in all casualties of life should say, I knew my riches were uncertain; that my friend was but a man. Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being […]
Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
