Quotes of: Certainties Keyword

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

Bertrand Russell

I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer.

Bridget Riley

Let go of consistency, let go of certainty. Learn to live with the waves of change and uncertainty.

Debasish Mridha

Gimli: Certainty of death. Small chance of success. What are we waiting for?

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

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.

Naomi Weisstein

The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appre...

Vicente del Bosque

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

Simone de Beauvoir

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

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.

Bertrand Russell

She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.

Summer by the Sea

The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.

Rem Koolhaas

He talked about the future with such certainty, he might have been talking about the past.

Michael Dobbs

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.

Vaclav Havel

You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

Professional learning does not advance… through the inexorable confirmation of previous certainties, but through a systematic challenge to our present conceptions

Douglass B. Reeves

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

Erich Fromm

We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly.

Bob McDonnell

Without sounding overly pompous about it, I don't really trust certainty in anything, actually. Especially as I get older. Except love. I'm certain of love, I guess.

Martin Freeman

Robert Kincaid: This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.

The Bridges of Madison County

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

Alain de Botton

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.

Vaclav Havel