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  • People always tell me with absolute certainty that they don't trust themselves. -- Richard Bandler
  • Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists. -- Thomas Huxley
  • If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong. -- Joe Biden
  • Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can. -- Richard Stallman
  • I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it. -- Woodrow Wilson
  • One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but statement demands certainty... absolute certainty. -- Paul Outerbridge
  • Et Tu, Babe' was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing; it's my whole life. -- Mark Leyner
  • I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way. -- Ewan McGregor
  • Turn yourself inside out. Live with absolute certainty that you have the power to create anything that you desire-anything!-because the power you need is the power of the Universe flowing through you. -- Sonia
  • When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone. -- Loren Eiseley
  • To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility. -- John Stuart Mill
  • Scientists do not believe in fundamental and absolute certainties. For the scientist, certainty is never an end, but a search; not the ordering of certainty, but its exploration. For the scientist, certainty represents the highest degree of probability. -- Ashley Montagu
  • The hope we have in Christ is an absolute certainty. We can be sure that the place Christ is preparing for us will be ready when we arrive, because with Him nothing is left to chance. Everything He promised He will deliver. -- Billy Graham
  • That which draws us by its mystical force; what every created thing, even the very stones, feels with absolute certainty as the center of its being... is the force of love. Christians call this "eternal blessedness." It is a necessity of man for growth and joy. -- Gustav Mahler
  • Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can. Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now. To insist on absolute certainty before starting to apply ethics to life decisions is a way of choosing to be amoral. -- Richard Stallman
  • Can you predict the future with absolute certainty? Your answer must be no. You have two options: You can either decide to accept yourself as an imperfect human being with limited knowledge and realize that you will at times make mistakes, or you can hate yourself for it. -- David D. Burns
  • Fundamentalists believe that we don't believe in anything. In their view of the world, they are in possession of absolute certainties, while we are descending into decadence. We will be able to triumph over terrorism not by waging war on it, but through a conscious, fearless way of life. -- Salman Rushdie
  • The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty that we are over in the presence of an Infinite, Eternal Energy from which all things proceed. -- Herbert Spencer
  • I do not despise genius-indeed, I wish I had a basketful of it. But yet, after a great deal of experience and observation, I have become convinced that industry is a better horse to ride than genius. It may never carry any man as far as genius has carried individuals, but industry-patient, steady, intelligent industry-will carry thousands into comfort, and even celebrity; and this it does with absolute certainty. -- Walter Lippmann
  • I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty. -- Anthony Eden
  • The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul. -- Chuck Palahniuk
  • Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal. -- Cassius Jackson Keyser
  • It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties. -- Christopher Hitchens
  • Don't try and understand this with your mind. There will be no absolute knowing, no certainty in these thoughts and philosophies and ideas. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • Faith to me is having absolute certainty that God is in control of my life and that He has my best interests at heart. -- Dan Ellis
  • Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen. -- Oswald Chambers
  • Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . . -- Carl Sagan
  • Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state of scientific thought. -- Ludwig von Mises
  • As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less likely. Science can say nothing with absolute certainty. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
  • Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
  • We do know, with absolute certainty, that [Saddam] is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapon. -- Dick Cheney
  • He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  • Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life. -- John Stuart Mill
  • I'm sure one of the frustrations of being a Western enthusiast of Japanese food and culture is you're confronted every day with the absolute certainty that you will die ignorant. -- Anthony Bourdain
  • He who asserts belief with absolute certainty knows nothing of faith and makes himself into a fool. He who is wise, upon realizing they have done this, recants and searches themselves for further enlightenment. -- Cristina Marrero
  • The greatest good that can come to anyone is forming within them an absolute certainty of themselves, and of their relationship to the Universe, forever removing the sense of heaven as being outside of them. -- Ernest Holmes
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