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Certainty

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous. – Chinese Proverb

There is nothing certain, but the uncertain. – Proverb

If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties. – Francis Bacon

To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of ones voice. – Ambrose Bierce

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time. – Josh Billings

There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing. – Scotty Bowman

We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all. – Giordano Bruno

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing. – Robert Burns

We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously. – Albert Camus

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. – Thomas Carlyle

Inquiry is fatal to certainty. – Will Durant

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. – Benjamin Franklin

There is nothing certain except the unforeseen. – Fraude

When we are not sure, we are alive. – Graham Greene

When men are the most sure and arrogant they are commonly the most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation and suspense which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities. – David Hume

The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

A womans guess is much more accurate than a mans certainty. – Rudyard Kipling

The more I see the less I know for sure. – John Lennon

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. – H. L. Mencken

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life! – George Meredith