Certainty Quotes

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.

If you forsake a certainty and depend on an uncertainty, you will lose both the certainty and the uncertainty.

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.