Certainty Quotes

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I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty. All that appears… — Mahatma Gandhi
It was revealed to me many years ago with conclusive certainty that I was a fool and that I had always been a fool. Since… — Alastair Sim
The Greeks had had vast experience in this world, their imagination had been fertile and they had created much...that, in these circumstances, they should fall… — Joseph Kastein
We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Dream life, I realized, was only confusing when you were awake. It was from the perspective of waking life that dream life seemed fractured and… — Alex Garland
The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles… — David Foster Wallace
Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us the language and… — Robert A. Burton
Historians constantly rewrite history, reinterpreting (reorganizing) the records of the past. So, too, when the brain's coherent responses become part of a memory, they are… — Israel Rosenfield
We share in the certainty that people labeled with mental illness are first and above all, human beings. Our lives are precious and are of… — Patricia Deegan
There was no way to know that certainty would one day become a luxury, too. — Therese Anne Fowler
But theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your own religious insights and ignore… — Yossi Klein Halevi
The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog-undervalued and undermined-even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that it is time… — Kate Bernheimer
There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will experience hardship and… — James Dobson
The rocket that goes up next March will not only lift a payload, it will launch what I believe will ultimately be the most significant… — Bill Richardson
In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity. — Carlos Fuentes
Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error.… — Carl Sagan
'I beseech ye . . . , think that ye may be mistaken.' I should like to have that written over the portals of every… — Learned Hand
Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt. — Milton Glaser
Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan… — Pete Sessions

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