Top 30 Certain Vs Uncertain Quotes
#1. So we face our final hours ... and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories.
Tad Williams
#2. The physician who waits until dead certain of a diagnosis before acting is likely to wind up with a dead patient. Sometimes things develop so rapidly that only early action-back when you're still somewhat uncertain-stands a chance of being effective, as in catching cancer before it metastasizes.
Joel Garreau
#3. The covenant of works
was contingent on the uncertain obedience of a changeable man, while the covenant of
grace rests on the obedience of Christ as Mediator, which is absolute and certain.
Louis Berkhof
#4. At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.
Al Purdy
#5. We prefer being certain about a bad scenario rather than being uncertain
S.E. Sever
#6. Determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain.
Paracelsus
#7. The choice is yours. Certain death, or death uncertain. Choose.
James Dashner
#8. Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying
Thomas Paine
#9. Many of the gifts life has to teach us live not in the realm of the certain, but in the uncertain.
Lissa Rankin
#10. In Maureen Owen's perfectly titled Erosion's Pull, words and lines map, unmap, and revamp our everyday postcontemporary geographies: ironies and ambiguities, surrealistic conundrums, kaleidoscopic comedies, puzzlements, certain and uncertain loves and losses.
Susan Howe
#11. Let certain things be uncertain.
Appreciate the puzzle that life is,
insofar as I know, after a scheme of steps,
all Crosswords have a solution,
and every Sudoku makes a lot of sense.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#12. Latin Americans hold on tight even to pain and suffering, preferring a certain present to an uncertain future. Some of this is only natural, entirely human. But for us, the fear is paralyzing; it generates not only anxiety but also paralysis.
Oscar Arias
#14. In its efforts to learn as much as possible about nature, modern physics has found that certain things can never be "known" with certainty. Much of our knowledge must always remain uncertain. The most we can know is in terms of probabilities.
Richard P. Feynman
#15. Laws fixed, certain, and uniform, are said to be the distinguishing traits of civilized from savage communities. In these last, seldom are any laws, unless it be the arbitrary and uncertain will of the strongest.
Levi Woodbury
#16. It's like one of your maps. There's never just one way to get somewhere right? There are a bunch of different possibilities. Some of them take you where you want to go, some bring you home, and others go somewhere else entirely. You can be really certain about really uncertain things.
Jennifer E. Smith
#17. "Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know." It is "I can't know." "I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain."
Werner Heisenberg
#18. At any specific stage of your life, you are certain about few things which when passes over the time to be something uncertain and vice versa.
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#19. To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
Socrates
#20. How will it be when one of us alone Goes on that strange last journey of the soul? That certain search for an uncertain goal, That voyage on which no comradeship is known? ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#22. Any humane and reasonable person must conclude that if the ends, however desireable, are uncertain and the means are horrible and certain, these means must not be employed.
Howard Zinn
#23. An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.
Alberto Moravia
#24. ... a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper
a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make
everybody more or less uncomfortable.
Charles Dickens
#25. It was the heart of any scam or fiddle
keep the punter uncertain, or, if he is certain, make him certain of the wrong thing.
Terry Pratchett
#26. Sometimes, life can seem very uncertain. No matter what, find the source that keeps you strong and keep in alignment with that source. Don't be swayed or dismayed with the uncertainties, instead, be firm with that which you are certain of.
Eveth N Colley
#27. Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.
Arthur Eddington
#28. I do not know that there is a more certain sound than Senator Kennedy. I cannot imagine a more uncertain sound than Senator Kerry.
Gordon Smith
#29. Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons.
Tim O'Brien
#30. Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
Benjamin Franklin
