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Certainty Quotes by Rene Descartes
- When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be…
- Although my knowledge grows more and more, nevertheless I do not for that reason believe that it can ever be actually infinite, since it can…
- Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots for…
- We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a…
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- 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
- If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom. — Lord Byron
- Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. — Albert Camus
- One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. — Thomas Carlyle
- It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later… — Jonathan Carroll