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Certainty Quotes by George Eliot
- You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried…
- Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is…
- Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And…
- No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
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
- If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a… — William Barclay
- The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that… — Charles Baudelaire
- I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. — Simone de Beauvoir
- Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own. — Geraldine Brooks
- There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing. — Robert Burns