Certainty Quotes

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The speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have… — Audre Lorde
Those who say they dislike dogma, or 'certainty', tend to be liars, hypocrites, or simply wrong. What they really dislike is the dogma of those… — Jonah Goldberg
A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became… — Bertrand Russell
If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. — Richard P. Feynman
I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my… — Ewan McGregor
Now suppose both death and hell were utterly defeated.Â Suppose the fight was fixed.Â Suppose God took you on a crystal ball trip into your… — Peter Kreeft
For a Man cannot believe a Miracle without relying upon Sense, nor Transubstantiation without renouncing it. So that never were any two things so ill… — John Tillotson
It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of… — Charles Sturt
There are normal times when it is wholly admirable to be steadfast, resolute, unconflicted, and therefore when integrity is unmistakenly a virtue. The person of… — Simon Blackburn
Through experiments over the past few decades physicists have discovered matter to be completely mutable into other particles or energy and vice-versa and on a… — Barbara Brennan
Educators must resist the quest for certainty. If there were certainty there would be no scientific advancement.Â So it is with morals and patriotism. — John Goodlad
He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion. — Leonardo da Vinci
Lay your wishes aside for a spell, and look deep into what you believe about yourself. Make sure your beliefs about your own life are… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Therefore, criticism has to direct itself against itself, and against the mysterious Substance in which it has up to now hid itself. In this way… — Bruno Bauer
No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty. — Leon Wieseltier
Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the… — Mark Vonnegut
PRETTY LITTLE LIARS works as a metaphor for our central human experience: we have no way to objectively know about anything, no way to move… — Norman Buckley
The only thing that anyone can diagnose, with any certainty, by looking at a fat person, is their own level of stereotype and prejudice toward… — Marilyn Wann
There is a big difference between wanting to say you wrote a book, and actually writing one. Many people think they want to write, even… — Scott Berkun
Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in terms the non-expert… — Ron Suskind

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