Certainty Quotes

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Living by faith isn't living with certainty. It's trusting God in spite of unanswered questions and unresolved doubts. — Rick Warren
Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical. — Julian Barnes
The only things of certainty are Death and Taxes. — Benjamin Franklin
I remembered standing in the middle of the street in front of The Crooked Bookshelf, filled with the certainty of a future. I had heard… — Maggie Stiefvater
Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties. — Michael Faraday
We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets - and have only the rudiments of a system to prepare patients… — Atul Gawande
A vital part of philosophizing is learning to trust one's own intuitivist intelligence, getting one's center of gravity back between one's feet. In our culture-so… — Kenny Smith
Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all? — Philip Yancey
If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet. — Pema Chodron
Certainty and similar states of â€˜knowing what we knowâ€™ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason. — Robert A. Burton
The world is certainty a sudden place. — Carson McCullers
The image of the presence, whatever it was, waiting there for him to go -this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves… — Henry James
There is no certainty of what will or won't be in our lives. All we have is this moment. The last is gone, the next… — Curt Mega
Action based on hope just felt better than the paralysis of certainty. — Christopher Moore
One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty. — Stefan Molyneux
Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a… — Nelson A. Miles
Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face the impermanence of… — U.G. Krishnamurti
You want to know yourself. For this keep steadily in the focus of consciousness, the only clue you have: your certainty of being. Be with… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty. — Francois Mauriac

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