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Certainties Quotes by Milan Kundera
- 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…
- 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…
More Certainties Quotes
- If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he… — 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… — Jonathan Carroll
- It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit,… — Samuel Johnson
- The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. — R. H. Tawney
- 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… — Salman Rushdie
- All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties. — Charles William Eliot