Certainty Quotes

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...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair is relentless in… — John Piper
Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without touch. It is… — Patricia Polacco
Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his… — Ayn Rand
I have no talent for certainty. — Jane Austen
Thereâ€™s faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and thereâ€™s faith that confuses itself for knowledge. The first embraces uncertainty, acknowledges the mysteriousness of the… — R. Scott Bakker
I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better.... — Chris Bohjalian
We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of Godâ€¦ Among the tribes… — T.E. Lawrence
History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation. — Julian Barnes
There is certainty in a ring. The non-ending, the non-beginning. The ongoing. The way it holds on to you not because it's fastened or stretched… — David Levithan
All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents. — Mark Helprin
I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that canâ€™t give way, is an offer of something not… — Christopher Hitchens
The only certainty is death. — Guy de Maupassant
Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that it is death… — Paulo Coelho
Discovering, for example, that as witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you are or have… — Julian Barnes
Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and permanent. There is… — Tim O'Brien
An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up then wither on… — Haruki Murakami
The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul. — Chuck Palahniuk
There was the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry. — Tim O'Brien
What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd… — Julian Barnes

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