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Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic.
We need a transitional Brexit deal that provides maximum certainty and stability. Labour will deliver it.
Farmers and ranchers need long-term certainty about who they will be able to sell to and under what terms.
Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion.
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
As a businessman, you need economic certainty. On the tax policies. You need it on your regulatory policies.
But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties.
I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better.
Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise.
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
Our hope is a certainty based on the truths that God is in complete control of our universe and that He loves us.
Our discussions of the economy may sometimes ring in the ears of the public with more certainty than is appropriate.
it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime
It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden.
Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.
You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.
The truth is you cannot decrease the severity and certainty of sentences without increasing crime. It's simply impossible.
Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.
We must always remember that all medical interventions have risk, and very little can be asserted with 100 percent certainty.
When you've been living in hope for a long time as I have, suddenly you realize that certainty is far more desirable than hope.
To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.
Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.
That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.
If there is one certainty in soccer, it is this: The quickest road to becoming a winning soccer team is to have a great goalkeeper.
We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly.
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God.
My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.
There's something about the lack of certainty with a documentary, which is exhausting if you do three in a row. It's nerve-wracking.
A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.
When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.
Even the stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found?
What makes you so certain?" "But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?" "Yes!" "Then you want death.
I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd.
You should have certainty in what you do. Anyone who has done anything in this world was hated. If you're not hated, you've done nothing.
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.
Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.
We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.
Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or the seasons.
Our need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit 'how-to-parent' strategies both seductive and dangerous.