#certainty

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

#uncertainty #law

That it's no good loving me because I'm never going to get married anyway and he'd just end up hating me later instead of sooner. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#uncertainty #unloved #unrequited #love

You’ve got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#confidence #inspirational #self-esteem #success #winning

Heralds don't sing about men who lived in orthodoxy or played it safe, they sing about men who lived an uncertain future and took enough risks to make your head spin. ↗

— Evan Meekins

#fantasy-fiction #fiction #heroes #legends #risk

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 certainly 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

#control #control-freaks #god #law #law-and-gospel

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive. ↗

— Alan Bullock

#although #back #been #boring #certainty

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

#certainty #humor #husband #husband-and-wife #love

There is so much uncertainty out there, and the government in Washington doesn't seem to get it. What's needed is a new business environment. ↗

— Rob Portman

#environment #get #government #much #needed

As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play. ↗

— Bridget Riley

#certainty #come #deceive #does #essential

Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world. ↗

— Naomi Weisstein

#certainty #describing #found #infallibility #nature