Certainty Quotes

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This surpassed the fear of death. Death would be a mercy if it would make the feeling stop, the uncontrollable panic mingling with the mind-scrambling… — Brandon Mull
Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that ensures justice and… — Mark Helprin
Love, I thought to myself abstractedly. Not 'This is love' or 'Is this love?' Not a sentence, not a certainty, not a thought with moving… — Julian Gough
Study nothing except in the knowledge that you already knew it. Worship nothing except in adoration of your true self. And fear nothing except in… — Clive Barker
Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that our inward lives… — Jeanette Winterson
To the last we have learned nothing. In all of us, deep down, there seems to be something granite and unteachable. No one truly believes,… — J M Coetzee
I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet, teaching me something… — Muriel Barbery
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
I brought Hassanâ€™s son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty — Khaled Hosseini
People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power. The only thing we should… — Sam Harris
It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in… — William Sloane Coffin
The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of… — Milan Kundera
What is it that sometimes speaks in the soul so calmly, so clearly, that its earthly time is short? Is it the secret instinct of… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything....The novelist teaches… — Milan Kundera
There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessnessâ€“like how a person alone for too long cannot feel comfortable… — Tao Lin
Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possiblities… — Bertrand Russell
It infuriated him to think that there were still people in the state who believed in a loving and merciful God. There are mystics who… — Graham Greene
Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't be… — Hubert Selby, Jr.
Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though… — Bertrand Russell
-the soul's certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at… — David Foster Wallace

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