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Certainty Quotes by Milan Kundera
- The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on…
- The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of…
- The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything....The novelist teaches…
- We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions - love, antipathy, charity, or malice…
- It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which…
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
- The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that… — Charles Baudelaire