Certainty Quotes

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I sat there beside him till morning - and as I watched his face in the starlight, then the first ray of the sun on… — Ayn Rand
More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity. — Francois Gautier
What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add… — Nora Ephron
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence. — Henrik Ibsen
Like Dvoretsky, I think that (all other things being equal), the analytical method of studying chess must give you a colossal advantage over the chess… — Garry Kasparov
All those formal systems, in mathematics and physics and the philosophy of science, which claim to give foundations for certain truth are surely mistaken. I… — Jacob Bronowski
When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty. — Charles Evans Hughes
The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. It… — Story Musgrave
The fatal hour of this ancient game is approaching. In its modern form this game will soon die a drawing death - the inevitable victory… — Emanuel Lasker
Think about what it feels like when you interact with someone who makes you notice what's good about yourself (raising your status), who is clear… — David Rock
Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each… — William James
A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation — H. L. Mencken
He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly… — C.S. Lewis
Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of… — Lucille Clifton
You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a precipice of caution… — Winston Churchill
Hope is called the anchor of the soul because it gives stability to the Christian life. But hope is not simply a 'wish' I wish… — R C Sproul
Having spent 200 hours on the above, the young player, even if he possesses no special talent for chess, is likely to be among those… — Emanuel Lasker
The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises… — Eric Hoffer
And why do we reduce the beauty of relating to relationship? Why are we in such a hurry? - because to relate is insecure, and… — Rajneesh
Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility. — Ellen Langer

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