Certainty Quotes

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Climate Change is a national security issue. We found that climate instability will lead to instability in geopolitics and impact American military operations around the… — Gordon R. Sullivan
The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing… — Al Gore
Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the fierce… — Mark Doty
Experience has instructed us that no skill in the science of government has yet been able to discriminate and define, with sufficient certainty, its three… — James Madison
A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter… — Alexander Cockburn
Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in this age of… — Gregory Rabassa
We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite… — Victor Hugo
There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he… — Louis Aragon
Statistically it's a certainty there are hugely advanced civilizations, intelligences, life forms out there. I believe they're so advanced they're even doing interstellar travel. I… — Story Musgrave
In an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty, the one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge. — Ikujiro Nonaka
This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the mind survives bodily… — Stephen Batchelor
Through patience and certainty, leadership in the religion is obtained. — Ibn Taymiyyah
How incredibly far our lives drift from where we knew with all certainty they would go. How little today resembles what yesterday thought it would… — Jim Beaver
Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty. — Stephen Colbert
I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance. — Richard Dreyfuss
If I was gay, thereâ€™d be no closet. Youâ€™d never see the closet I came out of. Why? I would have burned it for kindling… — Henry Rollins
Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up. — David Foster
The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that seductive land where… — Barry Humphries
I like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere that suddenly becomes… — Jean-Luc Godard
The reason that ego and love are not compatible comes down to this: you cannot take your ego into the unknown, where love wants to… — Deepak Chopra

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