Certainty Quotes
Posted by nabil medawar in Miscellaneous Quotes, tags: certain, certainly, Certainty, Certitude, uncertain
- A child is a certain sorrow and uncertain joy.~ Swedish Proverb
- A fruit tree that grows in a dung heap will certainly blossom.~ Solomon Islander Proverb
- A reasonable probability is the only certainty.~ Edgar Watson Howe
- A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.~ Rudyard Kipling
- Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so.~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.~ Mark Twain
- If you are going to sit on it for three years, the seat will certainly get warm.~ Japanese Proverb
- If you don’t understand it with a wink, you certainly will with a blow.~ Moroccan Proverb
- Inquiry is fatal to certainty.~ William J. Durant
- It is precisely the uncertainty of this world that makes life worth living.~ Japanese Proverb
- No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.~ Latin Proverb
- Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- Just as a medicine may not cure a serious illness, wine will certainly not dispel your grief.~ Chinese Proverb
- Live on doubts; it becomes madness or stops entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- Mistrust is the mother of certainty.~ French Proverb
- No great deed is done by flatterers who ask for certainty.~ George Eliot
- Only death is certain.~ Maltese Proverb
- Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.~ Charles Edward Montague
- The longing for certainty… is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
- The present is the only reality and the only certainty.~ Arthur Schopenhauer
- The worst is not always certain but it’s very likely.~ French Proverb
- There are three uncertainties: woman, wind, and wealth.~ Indian Proverb
- To believe in certainty, we must begin by doubting.~ Polish Proverb
- To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.~ Chinese Proverb
- Two farmers each claimed to own a certain cow. While one pulled on its head and the other pulled on its tail, the cow was milked by the lawyer.~ Hebrew Proverb
- Unlaid eggs are uncertain chickens.~ Dutch Proverb
- We lose the certain things, while we seek the uncertain ones.~ Latin Proverb
- What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.~ Bertrand Russell
- What wise men suppose is worth more than the certainties of fools.~ Arabian Proverb
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