Certainty Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. — Simone de Beauvoir
Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own. — Geraldine Brooks
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing. — Robert Burns
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
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. — Albert Camus
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. — Thomas Carlyle
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
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating. — Carl von Clausewitz
A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty. — Walter Lippmann
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
Claiming certainty without corroborating evidence is stupid. — Han Fei
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
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
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
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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