Quotes by Certainty it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime Michel Foucault punishmentcrimecertainty What I need most of all is certainty. Milan Kundera certaintyneeds Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties Murray Gell-Mann probabilitycertaintysometimes Certainty abolishes hope, and robs us of renewal. Neil Postman abolishrenewalcertainty We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface. Nicolaus Copernicus surfacecertaintyearth ... the body, normally, is never in question: our bodies are beyond question, or perhaps beneath question - they are simply, unquestionably, there. This unquestionability of the body, is, for Wittgenstein, the start and basis of all knowledge and certainty. Oliver Sacks basescertaintybody We have been cocksure of many things that were not so. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. certitudehas-beenscertainty Certitude is not the test of certainty. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. learningtestscertainty Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life. Oswald Chambers markcertaintyspiritual Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is. Oswald Chambers faithfulour-relationshipcertainty The only certainty life contains is death. Patricia Briggs certainty-of-deathcertainty-in-lifecertainty The universe only gives you what you can handle, so trust that whatever is happening to you is exactly what you need. Just trust. Have certainty! Patricia Velasquez certaintygivingneeds If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet. Pema Chodron planetscertaintyifs Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it. Peter Elbow hungerincreasecertainty Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all? Philip Yancey certaintydoubtneeds Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty. Piers Anthony deniedtaxescertainty In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain. Pliny the Elder certaintyuncertainmatter The only certainty is uncertainty Pliny the Elder decision-makingcertaintydecision God's heart calls to our hearts, inviting us to come out of ourselves, to forsake our human certainties, to trust in him and, by following his example, to make ourselves a gift of unbounded love. Pope Benedict XVI certaintyexampleheart In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good. Pope Francis metsquestscertainty«123456789»
