Certainty Quotes

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Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty. — Timothy Keller
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and… — Tom Robbins
If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to… — Paulo Coelho
Everything that comes to us is a blessing or a test. Thatâ€™s all you need to know in this lifeâ€¦just the certainty that Godâ€™s got… — Dorothy Allison
How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words? — Eileen Wilks
The only certainty life contains is death. — Patricia Briggs
I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in… — Madeleine L'Engle
This was my voice, but perfectly wise, calm and compassionate. This was what my voice would sound like if Iâ€™d only ever experienced love and… — Elizabeth Gilbert
If He had not known with certainty that He would be Master over sin and that out of evil would evolve the noblest display of… — Charles Spurgeon
...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to… — Louise Bogan
Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous. — Will Durant
It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which… — Thomas Huxley
She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to an end. Afterward… — Steven Galloway
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. — Mark Twain
It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I… — Carl Jung
My mother has always been the point I calibrated myself against. In knowing where she was, I could always locate myself, as well. These months… — Sarah Dessen
The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with certainty that they possess the… — Saul Alinsky
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einsteinâ€™s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived… — Stephen Jay Gould
The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal. — Jorge Luis Borges
I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered something Father Tom… — Anne Lamott

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