Certainty Quotes
970 quotes by 724 authors
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new…
— Hannah Arendt
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you…
— Arthur Ashe
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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
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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the…
— William Barclay
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is…
— Charles Baudelaire
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.
— Geraldine Brooks
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
— Robert Burns
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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
— Lord Byron
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
— Albert Camus
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
— Thomas Carlyle
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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
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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.
— Walter Lippmann
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Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing the risks you…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Claiming certainty without corroborating evidence is stupid.
— Han Fei
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We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by a moral force…
— PZ Myers
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Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in man that urges…
— H.G. Wells
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The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to…
— Samuel Johnson
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Even if one's head were to be suddenly cut off, he should be able to do one more action with certainty.
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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