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.
Certainty Quotes
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.
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.
