Certainties Quotes

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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in… — Francis Bacon
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. — Simone de Beauvoir
It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched… — Jonathan Carroll
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants. — Bela Lugosi
Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars.… — Salman Rushdie
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties. — Charles William Eliot
I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer — Bridget Riley
I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty. All that appears… — Mahatma Gandhi
But theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your own religious insights and ignore… — Yossi Klein Halevi
There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will experience hardship and… — James Dobson
I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to… — Fernando Pessoa
When we seem to have won or lost in terms of certainties, we must, as literature teachers in the classroom, remember such warnings -- let… — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate. — Bethenny Frankel
Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties — Murray Gell-Mann
I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos without norms, even though that… — M.C. Escher
For me the first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and seeing everything I… — Pico Iyer
What if the choice isnâ€™t between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the mystery and embracing it? — R. Scott Bakker
That which is true must always remain true, though the applications may change greatly from generation to generation. It is the absence of such fundamental… — John Andreas Widtsoe
We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where… — Tzvetan Todorov
The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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