Certainty Quotes

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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run… — Henry David Thoreau
It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything. — Anthony Trollope
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. — Alan Turing
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. — Voltaire
A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end. — Henry A. Wallace
I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had won me approval… — Joan Didion
I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream. — Vincent Van Gogh
When shall I at last retire into solitude alone, without companions, without joy and without sorrow, with only the sacred certainty that all is a… — Nikos Kazantzakis
The opposite of faith is not doubt, itâ€™s certainty. — Anne Lamott
Subatomic particles do not exist but rather show 'tendencies to exist', and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times and in definite… — Fritjof Capra
Certainty is missing the point entirely. — Anne Lamott
The term ignorant is indeed perhaps an overstatement, implying as it does that something is known somewhere, whereas in reality we are not even sure… — John Ashbery
Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I… — Helen Keller
All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them. — Ian Mcewan
Knowing the precies answers is not as crucial as the certainty that the answers do, in fact, exist. — Chris Heimerdinger
How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marry right and live right, our relationship… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning. — Vaclav Havel
Nothing happens carelessly. Weâ€™re not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that lives an hour,… — Clive Barker
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos. — Henry Miller

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