Certainties Quotes

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At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble — Alister E. McGrath
What a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life! — George Meredith
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of… — Isaiah Berlin
It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply;… — Samuel Johnson
The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. — R. H. Tawney
Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions. — Steve Hackett
We want to have certainties and no doubts- results and no experiments- without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt and results only… — Carl Jung
I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat… — M.C. Escher
Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material. — Gail Sheehy
Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the… — Robert Henri
Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment… — Philip Sidney
If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is… — Pope Francis
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. — Erich Fromm
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps… — Vaclav Havel
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on… — Milan Kundera
Certainties are arrived at only on foot. — Antonio Porchia
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I was the subject of an experiment in love. I lived my life under her gaze, undergoing certain trials for her so that she would… — Hilary Mantel
Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that our inward lives… — Jeanette Winterson
To the last we have learned nothing. In all of us, deep down, there seems to be something granite and unteachable. No one truly believes,… — J M Coetzee

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