Certain Quotes

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
-Albert Einstein

"To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it."
-Voltaire

"Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of."
-Mark Twain

"We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles."
-Mark Twain

"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own."
-Aristotle

"I'm certain of Saturn's rivers, and all else is fact. "
-Saul Williams

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
-Aldous Huxley

"Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy."
-Seneca

"Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit."
-John Updike

"I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it."
-G. K. Chesterton

"For certain people after 50, litigation takes the place of sex."
-Gore Vidal

"Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality."
-Bertrand Russell

"When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others."
-Bertrand Russell

"There's a certain amount of resonance about that idea."
-Larry Newman

"That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false."
-Paul Valery

"Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight."
-Horatio Nelson

"It wasn't all that fun, but there was a certain euphoria about it."
-Troy Mcmahan

"This causes a certain amount of difficulty for us."
-Joe May

"My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed."
-Allen Ginsberg

"For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness."
-Herman Melville

"There are certain things that you have to do to play that position."
-Gary Pinkel

"The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts."
-Omar Bradley

"There is just a certain amount you can deal with."
-Daryl Miller

"There are characters in it that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas."
-Richard Hell

"This guy seems to think that unless you have a certain way of thinking, you don't belong here."
-Daniel Hernandez