Certainty Quotes

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I'm for open-mindedness and tolerance. I'm against any form of fanaticism, fundamentalism or zealotry, and this certainty of 'We have the truth.' The truth is… — Philip Pullman
She thought of what it would be like to grow up without the one certainty that every baby deseved - when I'm hurt or cold… — Jennifer Weiner
There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You lie there entirely… — Terry Pratchett
It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither of us was… — Robert James Waller
Love is not a maybe thing, you know when you love someone. — Lauren Conrad
In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live. — Robert James Waller
There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty. — Bart D. Ehrman
The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by… — Paulo Coelho
The line of gray along the horizon is brighter now, and with the coming light I feel a certainty: that there is, despite our wild… — Richard Russo
There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge--Purpose, as his… — Ayn Rand
When youâ€™re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the… — Julian Barnes
I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement. — William Boyd
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any… — Ambrose Bierce
it is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain. — Richard P. Feynman
Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the… — Aldous Huxley
I was the subject of an experiment in love. I lived my life under her gaze, undergoing certain trials for her so that she would… — Hilary Mantel
I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death. — Dean Koontz
she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience. — Anais Nin
Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise. — Maya Angelou

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