Quotes of: Certainties Keyword

Stop living the life with possibilities and probabilities, live the life with certainties.

Amit Kalantri

Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possiblities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom. Thus, while diminishing our feeling o...

The Problems of Philosophy

I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.

Phil Donahue

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

May Sarton

I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.

Shekhar Kapur

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.

Henri Poincare

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

Gail Sheehy

Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.

Geraldine Brooks

Nothing consoles and comforts like certainty does.

Amit Kalantri

Life is not notable for its overabundance of certainty.

Captain's Fury

She knew with chilling and absolute certainty she was next.

Deadly Offerings

There it was, happiness in a backward glance: happiness and the certainty of hope.

The Westhampton Leisure Hour and Supper Club

The only certainty life contains is death.

When Demons Walk

There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters.

T.L. Rese

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

Stephen Colbert

But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.

Christian Lous Lange

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.

James Lovelock

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.

Edward Coke

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

Bela Lugosi

Creativity could be described as letting go of certainties.

Gail Sheehy