Certainties Quotes

84 quotes by 74 authors

A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation — H. L. Mencken
Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of… — Lucille Clifton
You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a precipice of caution… — Winston Churchill
Lay your wishes aside for a spell, and look deep into what you believe about yourself. Make sure your beliefs about your own life are… — Elizabeth Gilbert
On the other hand, I view the whole matter from a cosmic perspective. I don't take a position. I believe that there are no more… — Peter Greenaway
God's heart calls to our hearts, inviting us to come out of ourselves, to forsake our human certainties, to trust in him and, by following… — Pope Benedict XVI
It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties. — Christopher Hitchens
The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties — H. L. Mencken
He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even… — Albert Camus
Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows — Mark Twain
If I've learned anything, it's really just to stop trying to find answers and certainties. — Emma Watson
The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity — Christopher Hitchens
Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-personÂ narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly originalÂ child whose deadpan certainties are a beguiling invitation toÂ readers… — Katharine Weber
New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities… — John Gregory Dunne
Scientists do not believe in fundamental and absolute certainties. For the scientist, certainty is never an end, but a search; not the ordering of certainty,… — Ashley Montagu
Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical. — Julian Barnes
Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties. — Michael Faraday
A vital part of philosophizing is learning to trust one's own intuitivist intelligence, getting one's center of gravity back between one's feet. In our culture-so… — Kenny Smith
The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit… — H. L. Mencken
Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge. — Ralph Ellison

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