Certainty Quotes

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This is what it is to be human: to see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving -- and to act, to strive.… — Spider Robinson
So we stand there, part of a crowd a thousand people strong, beaming up at the sky with wonder. I knew with a sudden certainty… — Wendy Mass
He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
She loved Bram in a clear-eyed way sheâ€™d never loved her ex-husband, no rose-colored glasses or mindless giddiness, no Cinderella fantasies or false certainty that… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand… — Christopher Hitchens
Your stockings prove your virtues. Be certain they are clean and free of tears. — Emilie Autumn
True. The one certainty about riding, Braygan, is that - at some time - you will fall off. It is a fact. Another fact you… — David Gemmell
I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Here is the point about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not hold… — Christopher Hitchens
My mother has made choices in her life, as we all must, and she is at peace with them. I can see her peace. She… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Finnick!" Something between a shriek and a cry of joy. A lovely if somewhat bedraggled young woman--dark tangled hair, sea green eyes--runs toward us in… — Suzanne Collins
The certainty that she would find what it was she sought just slipped away, until one night she knew there was nothing, no one waiting… — Kate Morton
If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can… — Terry Eagleton
The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities,… — Stephen Batchelor
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. — Anatole France
Maybe that's what is means to be human . . . forever questioning our certainties. — Kay Hooper
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
A testimony is a most precious possession because it is not acquired by logic or reason alone, it cannot be purchased with earthly possessions, and… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Okay. I'll deal with Benjamin. You're safe, okay? Nothing's gonna happen." His mouth pulled tight against itself. And now I was having some sort of… — Lilith Saintcrow

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