Certainty Quotes

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The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries ago, when some… — Heinz Pagels
I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door. — John Patrick Shanley
Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in… — Hermann Ebbinghaus
The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail. You can… — Conor Cruise O'Brien
Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interest of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass of the people,… — George Mason
Faith is not a certainty. Faith is the courage to live with uncertainty. — Jonathan Sacks
We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where… — Tzvetan Todorov
The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress. — Nate Silver
Somewhere in the back of my brain there exists this certainty: The body is no more than a costume, and can be changed at will.… — Marya Hornbacher
I don't believe anything. I only know some things to a greater degree of certainty than others. — John Ryman
In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy or common life,… — David Hume
To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure. — Spider Robinson
Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the… — Hermann Hesse
In philosophical terms, the opposite of rationalism is not irrationalism but empiricism, that is, a willingness to form beliefs on the basis of experience rather… — John Quiggin
Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can it make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted and… — Moss Hart
The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty. — Gottfried Leibniz
Those of us who work in this field see a developing potential for nearly a total control of human emotional status, mental functioning, and will… — Nathan S. Kline
If ruling our world stems from developing certainty in our sanity, how do we discover it? The Shambhala teachings instruct us to "put our mind… — Sakyong Mipham
The good gardener knows with absolute certainty that if he does his part, if he gives the labour, the love, and every aid that his… — Gertrude Jekyll

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