50 Certainty Quotes To Inspire

In a world often filled with ambiguity and constant change, finding a sense of certainty can be incredibly empowering. Whether it's the confidence to pursue your dreams, the determination to overcome obstacles, or the reassurance that you’re on the right path, certainty is a vital ingredient for a fulfilling life. This collection of the top 50 certainty quotes is carefully curated to inspire and motivate you, providing the clarity and confidence needed to face life's challenges head-on. So, take a few moments to immerse yourself in these words of wisdom and let them guide you towards a more assured and courageous journey.

1. “If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.” - Francis Bacon

2. “In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.” - Bertrand Russell

3. “...but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” - Benjamin Franklin

4. “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.” - Charles Darwin

5. “A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.” - Rudyard Kipling

6. “I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.” - Albert Einstein

7. “The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with certainty that they possess the right are dark inside and darken the world outside with cruelty, pain, and injustice.” - Saul Alinsky

8. “To voice doubts was unthinkable, but that did not means that doubts did not exist.” - John Christopher

9. “I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium, who banished the salamanders of my doubts and strengthened the lions of certainties...” - Salvador Dali

10. “In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.” - David Hume

11. “My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises and falls. But that's it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I'd loved and been loved, but I had nothing to show. It was a singularly plain, featureless landscape. I felt like I was in a video game. A surrogate Pacman, crunching blindly through a labyrinth of dotted lines. The only certainty was my death.” - Haruki Murakami

12. “Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that ensures justice and historical momentum in an imperfect world, because without imagination we would not have the wherewithal to challenge certainty, and we could never rise above ourselves.” - Mark Helprin

13. “It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a higher standard than those you judge. Enforcing rules, especially in its more subtle expressions like responsibility and expectation, is a vain attempt to create certainty out of uncertainty. And contrary to what you might think, I have a great fondness for uncertainty. Rules cannot bring freedom; they only have the power to accuse.” - Wm. Paul Young

14. “If art made you think, then this was Art. Staring at the ball, made of layers and layers of cloth, I wondered about the glass marble at its heart. What if you wanted to reach that marble? Make sure it was still whole?You'd have to remove the layers. You'd have to risk breaking the ball for a chance at freeing it. Fear, knowledge, certainty - you'd have to be willing to let them all go.” - Justina Chen Headley

15. “In these matters, the only certainty is that nothing is certain” - Pliny the Elder

16. “Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessarycondition for knowledge.” - Kedar Joshi

17. “No one knows for sure about the future. But if you feel reluctant to plan something about it, then someone with guts would define it for you.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

18. “We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state that is to follow. An intelligence knowing all the forces acting in nature at a given instant, as well as the momentary positions of all things in the universe, would be able to comprehend in one single formula the motions of the largest bodies as well as the lightest atoms in the world, provided that its intellect were sufficiently powerful to subject all data to analysis; to it nothing would be uncertain, the future as well as the past would be present to its eyes. The perfection that the human mind has been able to give to astronomy affords but a feeble outline of such an intelligence.” - Pierre Simon de Laplace

19. “I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.” - Ludwig Wittgenstein

20. “Luck is a favorable thing out of an uncertainty. No such thing as luck when everything's certain.” - Toba Beta

21. “One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided.” - Willy Russell

22. “Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.” - Ambrose Bierce

23. “Doubter wants proof which contributes nothing to her faith.” - Toba Beta

24. “If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal.” - Terry Eagleton

25. “At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.” - Ludwig Wittgenstein

26. “From the house of unbeliefto true religionis a single breath;From the world of doubtto certaintyis a single breath;Enjoy this precious single breath,for the harvestof our whole livesis that same one breath.” - Omar Khayyám

27. “Think fast on facts.” - Toba Beta

28. “The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.” - W.H. Auden

29. “I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.” - Criss Jami

30. “Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.” - Alan Lightman

31. “If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.” - Terry Pratchett

32. “A reasonable probability is the only certainty.” - E.W. Howe

33. “...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was...” - Terry Pratchett

34. “Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.” - Tony Schwartz

35. “He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.” - J.K. Rowling

36. “Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.” - J.K. Rowling

37. “When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.” - Criss Jami

38. “The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning.” - Peter Høeg

39. “What can you do with a person who says that he is absolutely uncertain about everything, and that he is absolutely certain about that?” - Idries Shah

40. “I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.” - Criss Jami

41. “Every judgment teeters on the brink of error,” Leto explained. “To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.” - Frank Herbert

42. “The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts and questions, while fools are so certain about things.” - Shannon L. Alder

43. “The rich world of his ancestors set the standards for Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s own life. It gave him a certainty of judgment and manner that cannot be acquired in a single generation.” - Eric Metaxas

44. “Faith can be a greater asset than certainty.” - Dawn Jayne

45. “In some cases, I am able to respect what so many call bigots. Such people have a more solid foundation for drawing their lines when it comes to the security of their ways and quite possibly the security of mankind. They rely on something that has worked to get man this far without placing ideals blindly driven by emotion first; they have a sure line and they say, 'No.' That, in a sense, is something I find to be highly respectable.” - Criss Jami

46. “What kind of husband would I be if I bet against my own marriage?'I smiled. 'The stupid kind. Didn't you listen to your dad when he told you not to bet against me?” - Jamie McGuire

47. “You’ve got to be sure of yourself beforeYou can ever win a prize.” - Napoleon Hill

48. “It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.” - Criss Jami

49. “It is an incurable act of desperation that men seek for certainty! It is like seeking for an unshakable place inside a shaking ship!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

50. “It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.” - Criss Jami