Certainty Quotes

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The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit… — H. L. Mencken
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right… — H. L. Mencken
Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be… — Isaac Watts
Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge. — Ralph Ellison
We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life. — Max Lerner
When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all… — Loren Eiseley
What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt. — Robert Breault
Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went beforeâ€”consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And… — George Eliot
At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble — Alister E. McGrath
One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have… — George Edward Woodberry
Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the… — Eric Temple Bell
We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us… — Albert Camus
Although we may trust God's promises for life after death and the certainty of a heavenly home, we must still face the reality of death. — Billy Graham
What a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life! — George Meredith
The only result my father got for his money was the certainty that his son had laid faultlessly the foundation of a system of heavy… — Flann O'Brien
We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty is American. — Anna Quindlen
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of… — Isaiah Berlin
Et Tu, Babe' was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I… — Mark Leyner
It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking… — Lance Armstrong
You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you changed your mind.… — David Auburn

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