Quotes of: Certainties Keyword

Father Brendan Flynn: Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty. When you are lost, you are not alone.

Doubt

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.

Robert Trout

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!

Blaise Pascal

Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that you've grasped the truth.

James Heckman

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.

Alan Bullock

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. -Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)

Anatole France

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

Anthony Trollope

How wise should we be if, with joyful certainty, we accepted each unfolding of His will as a proof of His faithfulness and love!

Susannah Spurgeon

They were like her rocks. Imperfect and surprising and maybe better in the long run than certainties. Chances, she thought, were life

Veronica Rossi

You should have certainty in what you do. Anyone who has done anything in this world was hated. If you're not hated, you've done nothing.

Yehuda Berg

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.

Ewan McGregor

If the opposite of certainty is doubt, humility must lie somewhere between the two,

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic

On Certainty

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer

He wins his battles by making no mistakes. Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.

The Art of War

The only certainty in life is that all things will certainly change.

Blind Triangle: A Rare Love Story from the Sixties

The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks. (65)

Confession of a Buddhist Atheist

To have reservations is to show true leadership. To have certainty without question, to lead people to battle with no qualms, or to prosecute without hesitation are qualities of a tyrant.

Abyss

The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity.

Arguably: Selected Essays

The moment our lips met, I knew with pure and piercing certainty that I would have waited for him forever.

Shadow and Bone

...I need to return briefly to a few incidents that have grown into anecdotes, to some approximate memories which time has deformed into certainty.

The Sense of an Ending