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title: "Great Certainty Qoutes"
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> [“We have no idea what your venture is or even your industry, so we won’t presume to tell you how to create…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-schmidt/we-have-no-idea-what-your-venture-is-or-even-your-industry-so-we-won/)

[Eric Schmidt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-schmidt/)

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> [Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one. This is a virtual certainty because even in the vacuum matter is one; and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bohm/deep-down-the-consciousness-of-mankind-is-one-this-is-a-virtual/)

[David Bohm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-bohm/)

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> [On September 11, people were shaken, but they quickly calmed down. There was a flash of awareness, which lasted a few fractions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rene-girard/on-september-11-people-were-shaken-but-they-quickly-calmed-down-there/)

[Rene Girard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rene-girard/)

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> [HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose-bierce/hurricane-n-an-atmospheric-demonstration-once-very-common-but-now/)

[Ambrose Bierce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ambrose-bierce/)

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> [Did we get anything like the sort of reform that would make the EU work better? No. Not even close. And worse,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-leadsom/did-we-get-anything-like-the-sort-of-reform-that-would-make-the-eu/)

[Andrea Leadsom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-leadsom/)

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> [I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-jay-gould/i-am-somehow-less-interested-in-the-weight-and-convolutions-of/)

[Stephen Jay Gould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-jay-gould/)

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> [There's no certainty to the next couple of years, but people are paying attention now. And I want to put out a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-mcmahon/there-s-no-certainty-to-the-next-couple-of-years-but-people-are/)

[Andrew McMahon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-mcmahon/)

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> [The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/the-very-emphasis-of-the-commandment-thou-shalt-not-kill-makes-it/)

[Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/)

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> [I love seeing somebody act real earnest and serious, like Jackie Gleason. He makes me laugh because he reflects back to me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeff-bridges/i-love-seeing-somebody-act-real-earnest-and-serious-like-jackie/)

[Jeff Bridges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeff-bridges/)

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> [I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-poincare/i-then-began-to-study-arithmetical-questions-without-any-great/)

[Henri Poincare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-poincare/)

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> [Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-suskind/summers-was-simply-a-master-explainer-able-to-deftly-boil-down-the/)

[Ron Suskind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-suskind/)

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> [People are invariably surprised to hear me say I am both an atheist and an agnostic, as if this somehow weakens my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-barker/people-are-invariably-surprised-to-hear-me-say-i-am-both-an-atheist/)

[Dan Barker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-barker/)

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> [We say, then, to anyone who is under trial, give Him time to steep the soul in His eternal truth. Go into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/we-say-then-to-anyone-who-is-under-trial-give-him-time-to-steep-the/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/i-lost-the-conviction-that-lights-would-always-turn-green-for-me-the/)

[Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/)

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> [One of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/one-of-the-most-basic-and-pervasive-social-processes-is-the-sorting/)

[Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/)

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> [Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/some-care-is-needed-in-using-descartes-argument-i-think-therefore-i/)

[Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/)

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> [Everything that comes to us is a blessing or a test. That’s all you need to know in this life…just the certainty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-allison/everything-that-comes-to-us-is-a-blessing-or-a-test-that-s-all-you/)

[Dorothy Allison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-allison/)

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> [I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-phane-mallarm/i-have-made-a-long-enough-descent-into-the-void-to-speak-with/)

[Stephane Mallarme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-phane-mallarm/)

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> [Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ren-descartes/neither-the-true-nor-the-false-roots-are-always-real-sometimes-they/)

[Rene Descartes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ren-descartes/)

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> [Experience has instructed us that no skill in the science of government has yet been able to discriminate and define, with sufficient…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/experience-has-instructed-us-that-no-skill-in-the-science-of/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

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> [I know that there is a near unanimous view in Congress that state or local taxes on Internet access would directly deter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-o-rielly/i-know-that-there-is-a-near-unanimous-view-in-congress-that-state-or/)

[Michael O'Rielly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-o-rielly/)

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> [I can predict with some sense of certainty how life will feel in a month. I can with the same logic remember…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-mangan/i-can-predict-with-some-sense-of-certainty-how-life-will-feel-in-a/)

[Dan Mangan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-mangan/)

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> [Never was I so devout as when I composed The Creation. I knelt down each day to pray to God to give…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-haydn/never-was-i-so-devout-as-when-i-composed-the-creation-i-knelt-down/)

[Joseph Haydn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-haydn/)

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> [An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-c-brown/an-aphorism-is-an-extreme-synthesis-of-thesis-and-antithesis-theory/)

[William C. Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-c-brown/)

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> [Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life! - In tragic hints here see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-meredith/ah-what-a-dusty-answer-gets-the-soul-when-hot-for-certainties-in-this/)

[George Meredith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-meredith/)

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> [What is the source of our existence? Something that is intangible, that derives from Spirit...Call it God or call it nature -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/teri-bradley/what-is-the-source-of-our-existence-something-that-is-intangible-that/)

[Teri Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/teri-bradley/)

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> [If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-specter/if-there-is-anything-more-frightening-than-the-threat-of-global/)

[Michael Specter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-specter/)

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> [Faith is not a question of basking in the certainty that there is a God and that God is taking care of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-rolheiser/faith-is-not-a-question-of-basking-in-the-certainty-that-there-is-a/)

[Ronald Rolheiser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-rolheiser/)

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> [Alaskans need some certainty and clarity over how the Pebble Partnership intends to proceed. I understand the complexity of a project like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisa-murkowski/alaskans-need-some-certainty-and-clarity-over-how-the-pebble/)

[Lisa Murkowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisa-murkowski/)

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> [If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/if-your-knowledge-of-fire-has-been-turned-to-certainty-by-words-alone/)

[Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/)

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> [“Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. That's what life's all about. We're a probe into the unknown, into the uncertain. Why can't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-herbert/abandon-certainty-that-s-life-s-deepest-command-that-s-what-life-s/)

[Frank Herbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-herbert/)

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> [“Words have meaning, not life or persons or the universe itself,” he said. “Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-jaynes/words-have-meaning-not-life-or-persons-or-the-universe-itself-he-said/)

[Julian Jaynes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-jaynes/)

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> [If you think you can then you can and if you think you can't, you just can't. What you see in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/if-you-think-you-can-then-you-can-and-if-you-think-you-can-t-you-just/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-francis/i-have-a-dogmatic-certainty-god-is-in-every-person-s-life-god-is-in/)

[Pope Francis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-francis/)

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> [American democracy faces a massive challenge. I don't think it is a certainty that we're headed toward Putin's Russia, as some commentariat…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-chait/american-democracy-faces-a-massive-challenge-i-don-t-think-it-is-a/)

[Jonathan Chait](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-chait/)

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> [I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/i-think-that-all-artists-regardless-of-degree-of-talent-are-a-painful/)

[Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/)

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> [The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-macgregor/the-british-museum-was-founded-with-a-civic-purpose-to-allow-the/)

[Neil MacGregor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-macgregor/)

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> [Most human things are full of conflict and ambivalence, not ease and simplicity. The world has grown increasingly fundamentalist, and the parameters…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-spiotta/most-human-things-are-full-of-conflict-and-ambivalence-not-ease-and/)

[Dana Spiotta](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dana-spiotta/)

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> [I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken." I should like to have that written over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/learned-hand/i-beseech-ye-in-the-bowels-of-christ-think-that-ye-may-be-mistaken-i/)

[Learned Hand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/learned-hand/)

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> [People have a need for certainty - and that need for certainty is in every human being, certainty that you can avoid…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-robbins/people-have-a-need-for-certainty-and-that-need-for-certainty-is-in/)

[Tony Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-robbins/)

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                        "text": "Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life! - In tragic hints here see what evermore Moves dark as yonder midnight ocean's force, Thundering like ramping hosts of warrior horse, To throw that faint thin fine upon the shore!",
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                        "text": "If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees.",
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                        "text": "Faith is not a question of basking in the certainty that there is a God and that God is taking care of us. Many of us are never granted this kind of assurance. Certitude is not the real substance of faith. Faith is a way of seeing things.",
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                        "text": "Alaskans need some certainty and clarity over how the Pebble Partnership intends to proceed. I understand the complexity of a project like this, and I appreciate the investments that have been made in Alaska already. But a reliable timeline has been missing, and I hope that the companies will provide one soon.",
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                        "text": "“Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. That's what life's all about. We're a probe into the unknown, into the uncertain. Why can't you hear Muad'Dib? If certainty is knowing absolutely an absolute future, then that's only death disguised! Such a future becomes now!”",
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