Certainty Quotes

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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of pa

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

William Butler Yeats

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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties thro

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth; and truth rewarded me.

Sylvia Ashton Warner

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We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that

We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.

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Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and ta

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

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There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lo

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into t

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

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If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if

If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.

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Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments th

Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.

Decisions Certainty Doubts

To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

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Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable unce

Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

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I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefull

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time.

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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affe

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

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A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

Rudyard Kipling

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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

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If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know

If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.

Terry Pratchett

Knowledge Direction Certainty Self Assurance

adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

Humor Funny Satire Positive Mistakes Certainty Assertions Errors Self Assurance

The present is the only reality and the only certainty.

The present is the only reality and the only certainty.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen

He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.

Decisions Certainty Doubts

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, a

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly certain than others

Bertrand Russell

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