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Certainty Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties.
- The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity
- I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to…
- 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…
- 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…
- The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not…
- The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
More Certainty Quotes
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he… — Francis Bacon
- Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination… — Mark Twain
- Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss… — Mark Doty
- No sooner had he thought this than he realized what was anchoring his happiness. It was purpose. He knew what he wanted… — Trenton Lee Stewart
- There is only one thing in this world which is constant. It's Change whether Time or People. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a… — William Barclay