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In the quiet spaces of spontaneity, we uncover whispers of clarity that even schedules can't broadcast.
Author:
Emily Randhart
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Success is not guaranteed, but neither is failure. The only certainty is the effort you put in every step of the way.
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Julia Hoffman
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The secret to creativity is the courage to let go of certainties.
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Maya Angelou
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Where there is love, there is no question.
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Albert Einstein
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Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor.
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John Woolman
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Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
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Naomi Weisstein
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I would say that without any doubt he's the killer - the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty which I - there's no question that he was the killer of President Kennedy.
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Henry Wade
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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
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Voltaire
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From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.
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Robert Trout
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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Anthony Trollope
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Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.
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Thomas Szasz
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It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour.
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Charles Sturt
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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
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Tom Stoppard
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To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
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Stanislaus Stanislaus I
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When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.
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Terence Stamp
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Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.
Author:
Richard Stallman
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Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
Author:
Adam Smith
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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
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May Sarton
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Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.
Author:
Bridget Riley
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The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.
Author:
Salvatore Quasimodo
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It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.
Author:
Henri Poincare
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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.
Author:
William Phelps
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If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
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Blaise Pascal
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You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
Author:
Conor O'Brien
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Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
Author:
Ashley Montagu
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Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode.
Author:
Nelson Miles
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I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way.
Author:
Ewan McGregor
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The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts. And then let's give some more tax breaks to small businesses and large. And then maybe the American people will have some confidence.
Author:
John McCain
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I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.
Author:
James Lovelock
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But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.
Author:
Christian Lange
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I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.
Author:
Polykarp Kusch
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The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.
Author:
Rem Koolhaas
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A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
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Rudyard Kipling
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When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty.
Author:
Charles Hughes
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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Oliver Holmes, Jr.
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When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.
Author:
Ernest Holmes
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Author:
Vaclav Havel
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Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Author:
Vaclav Havel
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A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.
Author:
Bret Harte
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Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
Author:
Garrett Hardin
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For those with ambition, reality is more of a creation than an unalterable certainty.
Author:
Lori Guinn
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For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Author:
Vincent Gogh
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To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
Author:
William Glasser
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That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.
Author:
Joseph Glanvill
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And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.
Author:
Joseph Glanvill
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And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.
Author:
William Gibson
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The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Author:
Erich Fromm
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Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
Author:
George Eliot
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The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Pliny Elder
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
Author:
Pliny Elder
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When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.
Author:
Loren Eiseley
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Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it.
Author:
Sibel Edmonds
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Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together.
Author:
Hermann Ebbinghaus
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
Author:
Will Durant
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We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.
Author:
Peter Drucker
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I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.
Author:
Richard Dreyfuss
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I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.
Author:
Phil Donahue
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Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
Author:
Denis Diderot
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I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.
Author:
Michael Crichton
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We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
Author:
Edward Coke
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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
Author:
Karl Clausewitz
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Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.
Author:
Bruce Catton
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
Author:
George Byron
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Embrace the charm of uncertainties; there is beauty in questions and more richness in humility than in prejudice-hardened assumptions.
Author:
Alysia Rae
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Embrace uncertainty; it unfolds more along your path than all brilliant certainties could.
Author:
Linnea Somerfield
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Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.
Author:
George Boole
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
Author:
Hans Blix
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We have to be mindful that there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which is us and our allies.
Author:
Cofer Black
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We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.
Author:
Elizabeth Bibesco
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
Author:
Charles Baudelaire
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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.
Author:
William Barclay
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There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
Author:
Roberto Assagioli
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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 certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.
Author:
Hannah Arendt
