Certainty Quotes

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Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when the world doesn't… — Jonathan Stroud
And it would be a spare life he would be certain to lead as a schoolteacher in some urban location. But he had a serenity… — Michael Ondaatje
The emotionally mature individual should completely accept the fact that we live in a world of probability and chance, where there are not, nor probably… — Albert Ellis
It was one thing, after all, to know his feelings for Amanda hadn't changed; it was another thing entirely to face the future with the… — Nicholas Sparks
The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty,and is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species. — Christopher Hitchens
You can't deny that there's something between us." "No. There is. When I saw you today--I didn't know I'd been waiting for you until you… — David Levithan
Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason. — Alain de Botton
God is in the mountains. Impassive, immovable, jagged giants, separating the celestial from the terrestrial with eternal diagonal certainty. As if silently monitoring the beating… — Russell Brand
the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding,… — Barack Obama
The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly,… — Nikos Kazantzakis
Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the futility of death,… — Vincent Van Gogh
We are symbolic. We are driving to the edge of the city and talking in vague-yet-resolute certainties about our dreams and our futures. We are… — Pete Wentz
Things always change when someone you love dies. You just can't prepare youself for those changes no matter what you do in advance. The only… — J.A. Redmerski
Five hundred years before Christ was born, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus told his students that "everything changes except the law of change". He said: "You… — Dale Carnegie
Yes, he would have done that for Tessa - died to keep the ones she needed beside her - and so would Jem have done… — Cassandra Clare
The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and… — Carlos Castaneda
This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try… — Albert Camus
We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is no learning without having to pose… — Richard P. Feynman
I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose everything, to let go of one… — Christina Baker Kline

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