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• Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it.

  Robert Henri

  Artist, Messages, Spirit

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen.

  Philip Sidney

  Confusion, Matter, Causes

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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• I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty.

  Anthony Eden

  Mean, May, Politician

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• To say that I have found the answer to all riddles of the soul would be inaccurate and presumptuous. But in the knowledge I have developed there must lie the answers to that riddle, to that enigma, to that problem - the human soul - for under my hands and others, was seen the best in man rehabilitated. I discovered that a human being is not his body and demonstrated that through Scientology an individual can attain certainty of his identity apart from that of the body. We cannot deal in the realm of the human soul and ignore the fact.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Lying, Men, Hands

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• A compassionate willingess is required - as is the courage to live before the fact, before the understanding, before any rational support or certainty, to live the moment to its natural peak and conclusion, and to accept with dignity whatever joy, grief, misfortune, or unexpectedness occurs.

  Clark Moustakas

  Grief, Support, Joy

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• Certainty sees things in restrictive, protective, aggressive ways, and thus isn't seeing at all.

  Jerry Saltz

  Doubt, Way, Aggressive

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• Watercolour painting is notoriously difficult - so much depends on directness and speed, and certainty of intention. Tentative or fumbling touches are disastrous, for they cannot be obliterated easily.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Painting, Speed, Intention

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• There has to be some certainty about who the leader is before the summer break.

  Jack Straw

  Summer, Leader, Break

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• It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works.

  Edmond Jabes

  Creativity, Creative, Uncertainty

  Edmond Jabès (1977). “The Book of Questions: The Book of Yukel, Return to the Book”, Wesleyan

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• The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.

  Maria Mitchell

  Soul, Nerves, World

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• Rather than a universe of static certainty, at the most fundamental level of matter, the world and its relationships were uncertain and unpredictable, a state of pure potential of infinite possibility.

  Lynne McTaggart

  Inspirational, Levels, Matter

  Lynne McTaggart (2012). “The Field Updated Ed: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Don't try and understand this with your mind. There will be no absolute knowing, no certainty in these thoughts and philosophies and ideas.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Yoga, Ideas

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• I will repeat a technique until it is mastered, no matter when that will be. One certainty though: it will be.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Mma, Technique, Matter

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• Your body can dictate your mind, so when I walk to a fight a lot of times I'm scared, I'm scared to death, I have a lot of doubts of myself, I'm afraid to fail, I'm afraid to be humiliated in front of everybody; but what happens, I act like it's impossible for me to fail and that my victory is a certainty. So as I'm walking to the Octagon and I act with confidence my body takes over my mind and I become confident for real. As I'm walking I see the change in my mind and when I reach the Octagon I'm a different person, I'm very confident.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Real, Fighting, Mma

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• In teaching there can be too much emphasis on certainty and a proper appreciation of uncertainty is to be encouraged.

  Dennis Lindley

  Appreciation, Teaching, Too Much

  "Understanding Uncertainty". Book by Dennis Lindley (Chapter 6 "Bayes Rule", p. 81), 2006.

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• There have been times when the church seemed afraid, but she is no longer. Analyze, dissect, use your microscope or your spectrum till the last atom of matter is reached; reflect and refine till the last element of thought is made clear; the church now knows with the certainty of science what she once knew only by the certainty of faith, that you will find enthroned behind all thought and matter only one central idea--that idea which the church has never ceased to embody--I AM!

  Henry Adams

  Ideas, Church, Atoms

  Henry Adams (2015). “Esther”, p.6, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.

  Yehuda Berg

  Heartless, Supportive, Sound

  "Certainty: A Principle of Kabbalah" by Yehuda Berg, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 21, 2011.

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• A man can reach into anything and turn it to his cause. It's not want, or desire, just certainty. Only be assured that whatever you reach into will reach into you in turn.

  Mark Lawrence

  Men, Desire, Want

  Mark Lawrence (2013). “Emperor of Thorns”, p.275, Penguin

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• This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great European war, and regards it with the peculiar satisfaction excited by such things in a certain order of mind. His phrases about "dire calamity" and so on mean nothing; the whole tenor of his writing proves that he represents, and consciously, one of the forces which go to bring war about; his part in the business is a fluent irresponsibility, which casts scorn on all who reluct at the "inevitable." Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

  George Gissing

  War, Writing, Mean

  "The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft". Book by George Gissing. Summer, § VII, p. 89, 1903.

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• Even the stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Littles, Found, Infallibility

  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Emperor of Rome.), Alice Zimmern (189?). “Meditations”

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• I should say that, in addition to my tree-love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own pre-occupation with the Lord of the Rings, the knowledge that it would be finished in great detail or not at all, and the fear (near certainty) that it would be 'not at all'. The war had arisen to darken all horizons. But no such analyses are a complete explanation even of a short story.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  War, Tree, Details

  Letter to Caroline Everett, June 24, 1957.

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• I don't apologize for my behavior anymore. Whatever I do or don't do shouldn't matter. Moral certainty is dangerous. Moral certainty is what makes people go to war unnecessarily and illegally. Morality, as any halfway intelligent human being would tell you, is a very subjective thing.

  Steve Coogan

  War, Intelligent, People

  "Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.

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• La volupte   unique et supre"  me de l'amour g|"t dans la certitude de faire le mal. The unique, supreme pleasure of love consists in the certainty of doing evil.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Unique, Evil, Pleasure

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• Delacroix, Wagner, Baudelaire - all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the irresistible effect - to intoxicate, or overwhelm. They looked to analysis to provide them with the keyboard on which to play, with certainty, on man's emotions, and they sought in abstract meditation they key to sure and certain action upon their subject - man's nervous and psychic being.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Mean, Men

  "Degas, Manet, Morisot". Book by Paul Valéry, 1989.

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• If the biblical story is true, the kind of certainty proper to a human begin will be one which rests on the fidelity of God, not upon the competence of the human knower.  It will be a kind of certainty which is inseparable from gratitude and trust

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Gratitude, Biblical, Stories

  Lesslie Newbigin (1995). “Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt, and Certainty in Christian Discipleship”, p.28, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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