Certainty Quotes

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There is a kind of certainty that seems to characterize Jared Smith's best work, an understanding about place and the flow of spirit that makes… — Joseph Bruchac
To say that one need art, or politics, that incorporate ambiguity and contradiction is not to say that one then stops recognizing and condemning things… — William Kentridge
Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-personÂ narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly originalÂ child whose deadpan certainties are a beguiling invitation toÂ readers… — Katharine Weber
The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to… — Salvatore Quasimodo
I cleanse the windows of my mind, that it may become a mirror reflecting inspiration from the most High. I do this, not with strenuous… — Ernest Holmes
New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities… — John Gregory Dunne
Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for… — John Stuart Mill
There are two modes of knowledge: through argument and through experience. Argument brings conclusions and compels us to concede them, but it does not cause… — Roger Bacon
The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts.… — John McCain
You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down. — Conor Cruise O'Brien
From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation.… — Robert Trout
Certainty ends inquiry. — Jacob Bronowski
Certitude is not the test of certainty. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The search for the lessons of the new science is still in progress, really in its infancy. In this realm, three is a new kind… — Margaret J. Wheatley
My only complaint with 'Dickie' Bird is that he requires a degree of certainty that is almost neurotic; like the man who has to keep… — Mike Brearley
Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is… — George Eliot
I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion. — Phil Donahue
A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those that form the… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to eternal… — Leonardo da Vinci
Scientists do not believe in fundamental and absolute certainties. For the scientist, certainty is never an end, but a search; not the ordering of certainty,… — Ashley Montagu

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