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To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
-Chinese Proverb
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There is nothing certain, but the uncertain.
-Proverb
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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
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To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
-Ambrose Bierce
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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
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There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.
-Scotty Bowman
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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
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
-Robert Burns
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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
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
-Thomas Carlyle
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
-Will Durant
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In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
-Benjamin Franklin
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There is nothing certain except the unforeseen.
-Fraude
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
-Graham Greene
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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
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
-John Keats
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The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
-Rudyard Kipling
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The more I see the less I know for sure.
-John Lennon
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It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
-H. L. Mencken
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Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
-George Meredith
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There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
-Owen Meredith
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain.
-Pliny The Elder
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Books about Certainty
