Certainty Proverbs

Sayings about Certainty

To believe in certainty, we must begin by doubting. ~ Polish Proverb

It is precisely the uncertainty of this world that makes life worth living. ~ Japanese Proverb

Only death is certain. ~ Maltese Proverb

There is nothing certain except the unforeseen. ~ Saying

There's no insurance against death and poverty. ~ Yiddish Proverb

Mistrust is the mother of certainty. ~ French Proverb

Where the law is uncertain there is no law. ~ Traditional Proverb

You would do better to be someone's victim rather than someone's certainty. ~ Sri Lankan Proverb

We lose the certain things, while we seek the uncertain ones. ~ Latin Proverb

Quit not certainty for hope. ~ Traditional Proverb

If you have a choice between certainty and hope, choose certainty every time. ~ Saying

Unlaid eggs are uncertain chickens. ~ Dutch Proverb

Who can say with certainty that one will live to see the morrow? ~ Tibetan Proverb

There are three uncertainties: woman, wind, and wealth. ~ Indian Proverb

There are only two things you HAVE TO do in life. You HAVE TO die. You HAVE TO live until you die. You make up all the rest. ~ Saying

Nothing is certain but death and taxes. ~ Traditional Proverb

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

There is nothing certain, but the uncertain. ~ Traditional Proverb

Quotations about Certainty

The only certainty is that nothing is certain. ~ Pliny The Elder

Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour? ~ Horace

All uncertainly is fruitful... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand. ~ Antonio Machado

Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected. ~ Alice James

Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve. ~ Tehyi Hsieh

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth; and truth rewarded me. ~ Sylvia Ashton Warner

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. ~ Erich Fromm

Only one thing is certain -- that is, nothing is certain. If this statement is true, it is also false. ~ Ancient Paradox

The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain. ~ John F. Kennedy

There is no certainty; there is only adventure. ~ Roberto Assagioli

Do not feel certain of anything. ~ Bertrand Arthur William Russell

A reasonable probability is the only certainty. ~ Edgar Watson Howe

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone. ~ Mary Astor

Inquiry is fatal to certainty. ~ William J. Durant

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

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

Our lives are never certain, even for an hour. ~ Ferrant Sanchez Calavera

It is not certain that everything is uncertain. ~ Blaise Pascal

Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain. ~ Erich Fromm

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. ~ Eric Hoffer

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. ~ Blaise Pascal

The present is the only reality and the only certainty. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

All decisions are made on insufficient evidence. ~ Rita Mae Brown

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

Certainties are arrived at only on foot. ~ Antonio Porchia

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. ~ John Keats

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. ~ R. I. Fitzhenry

Unrest and uncertainty are our lot. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty, not knowing what comes next. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight. ~ Horatio Nelson

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. ~ Voltaire

In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain. ~ Pliny The Elder

Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. ~ Mark Twain

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. ~ Erich Fromm

The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it. ~ Owen Meredith

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

I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be. ~ William Sloan Coffin

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgment of probabilities, and not on certainties. ~ Charles W. Eliot

Time has told me less than I need to know. ~ Gwen Harwood

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. ~ Rudyard Kipling

When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side. ~ Terence

What men want is not knowledge, but certainty. ~ Bertrand Russell

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath. ~ Huang Po

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

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

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. ~ Bertrand Arthur William Russell

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions. ~ Lord Edward Coke

There is one thing certain, namely, that we can have nothing certain; therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain. ~ Samuel Butler

It's a simple formula: do your best and somebody might like it. ~ Dorothy Baker

The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train. ~ Paul Dickson