Certainties Quotes

84 quotes by 74 authors

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything....The novelist teaches… — Milan Kundera
One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided. — Willy Russell
The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by… — Sam Harris
Maybe that's what is means to be human . . . forever questioning our certainties. — Kay Hooper
I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium,… — Salvador Dali
It seems to be very hard for people to live with riddles or to let them live, although one would think that life is so… — Carl Jung
We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die. — Georges Bataille
What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me--that is what… — Albert Camus
...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair is relentless in… — John Piper
On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual look, the usual… — Charles Dickens
All of us carry around countless bags of dusty old knickknacks dated from childhood: collected resentments, long list of wounds of greater or lesser significance,… — Marya Hornbacher
Sometimes, the stars line up, the gods smile, and love gets a fighting chance. Just a chance. That's all it can really hope for. No… — Tess Gerritsen
The emotionally mature individual should completely accept the fact that we live in a world of probability and chance, where there are not, nor probably… — Albert Ellis
We are symbolic. We are driving to the edge of the city and talking in vague-yet-resolute certainties about our dreams and our futures. We are… — Pete Wentz
Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny… — Albert Camus
Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second. — Paul Auster
The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free… — Neil MacGregor
I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it claimed certainty. It… — Tom Stoppard
The thing the Buddhists and the Sufis have in common is a belief that religious certainties are destructive. — Luke Rhinehart
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life! — George Meredith

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