Certainty Quotes - Page 19

• The other guys are selling certainty. Not me. I'm on the corner with doubt.

  Bill Maher

  Guy, Doubt, Selling

  "Religulous". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of reality that conforms to its own representation of objectivity is truly objective.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Photography, Reality, Objectivity

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• I want to speak, show, see, and hear outrageously astute questions and comments. I want to be on the sides of pleasure and laughter and to disrupt the dour certainties of pictures, property, and power.

  Barbara Kruger

  Laughter, Want, Sides

  Barbara Kruger (1994). “Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances”, p.221, MIT Press

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• Terrorism is based on two major pillars: One is injustice, and the other is a certainty of attitude, the notion that their version of the story is the correct one.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Attitude, Two, Stories

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 2, 2004.

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• I don't really think I am interested in the macabre, but I am curious about death. That's normal... The only certainty in life is that we're all going to die. It would be unnatural not to think about death once in a while.

  Andres Serrano

  Thinking, Certainty In Life, Normal

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• I do know something. Just not with any certainty.

  Anne Heche

  Knows

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• People who have never run even a modest little business assert with great certainty and indignation that heads of multinational corporations are paid much more than they are worth. People who know nothing about medicine and nothing about economics unhesi.

  Thomas Sowell

  Running, Medicine, People

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• Doubting things go ill often hurts more
  Than to be sure they do; for certainties
  Either are past remedies, or, timely knowing,
  The remedy then born.

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Past, Knowing

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.52

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• I believe that any intelligent person who reads the evidence will come to the same conclusion about 2004 election results . But one will never be able to prove it to an absolute certainty because the votes were never counted in Ohio as the result of an illegal effort by public officials to derail the recount. Even if you do not believe that the election was stolen, there is no dispute that the Republicans made a deliberate, concerted effort to tilt the results in their favor.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Believe, Intelligent, Ohio

  Interview with David Kupfer, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. November 2006.

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• What has the Cross left in each of us? You see, it gives us a treasure that no one else can give: the certainty of the faithful love which God has for us. A love so great that it enters into our sin and forgives it, enters into our suffering and gives us the strength to bear it. It is a love which enters into death to conquer it and save us.

  Pope Francis

  Giving, Faithful, Suffering

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• It is a certainty that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme. We believe it's harming a population of low-income, principally Hispanic people in the U.S. to benefit a handful of super wealthy people at the top of the pyramid.

  Bill Ackman

  Believe, Pyramid Schemes, Pyramids

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• In the end it all comes down to this: you have a choice (or more accurately a rolling tangle of choices) between giving your work your best shot and risking that it will not make you happy, or not giving it your best shot - and thereby guaranteeing that it will not make you happy. It becomes a choice between certainty and uncertainty. And curiously, uncertainty is the comforting choice.

  David Bayles

  Giving, Choices, Comforting

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• The fraudster's greatest liability is the certainty that the fraud is too clever to be detected.

  Louis J. Freeh

  Clever, Fraud, Liability

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• Existential anxiety of doubt drives the person toward the creation of certitude of systems of meaning, which are supported by tradition and authority. Neurotic anxiety builds a narrow castle of certitude which can be defended with the utmost certainty.

  Paul Tillich

  Anxiety, Doubt, Castles

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• I did not imitate the skeptics who doubt only for doubting's sake, and pretend to be always undecided; on the contrary, my whole intention was to arrive at a certainty, and to dig away the drift and the sand until I reached the rock or the clay beneath.

  Rene Descartes

  Rocks, Doubt, Clay

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• Few Christians understand the concept of eternal rewards, even thought the Lord dedicated a great deal of His precious time on earth to teaching about them. The one certainty is that our position in the Lord's kingdom will be inversely proportional to how we indulge ourselves in this lifetime.

  Larry Burkett

  Christian, Teaching, Earth

  Larry Burkett (1990). “Business by the Book: The Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for Business Men and Women”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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• Faith was intended precisely for the simple, but the quest for certainty and simplicity becomes dangerous when it leads to fanaticism and narrow-mindedness. When reason as such becomes suspect, then faith itself becomes falsified.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Simple, Simplicity, Quests

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• Christian hypocrites who pretend to hate life and love death. He may talk about the soul-what he is after is the girl Love means suffering-those who love drag a chain with them. To her it was not a belief but a certainty Trifling incident gains importance when undue emphasis is laid.

  Georg Ebers

  Girl, Christian, Life And Love

  Georg Ebers “The Historical Romances of Georg Ebers”, Library of Alexandria

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• What unnerves so many liberals about talk radio? Simple: It's the unapologetic nature of the conversation, the unwavering sense of certainty. Where's the nuance? The shades of gray? We all know truth is a fragile butterfly dancing in and out of shadow and light, and these guys act as though truth is a rhino charging across a sunlit veldt.

  James Lileks

  Butterfly, Simple, Rhinos

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• Let this point therefore stand: that those whom the Holy Spirit has inwardly taught truly rest upon Scripture, and that Scripture itself is self-authenticated. . . . Therefore, illumined by his power, we believe neither by our own nor by any one else's judgment that Scripture is from God; but above human judgment we affirm with utter certainty (just as if we were gazing upon the majesty of God himself) that it has flowed to us from the very mouth of God by the ministry of men.

  John Calvin

  Believe, Men, Self

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• I think it's very important to distinguish between objectivity - which tends to be open, flexible, skeptical of its own certainty and open to new information - and objectivism - which thinks, "No, we know it all, we've got it, so real thinking and learning can come to an end."

  W. J. T. Mitchell

  Real, Thinking, Objectivity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written.

  Eliza Griswold

  Writing, Levels, Demand

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Investors don't like uncertainty. The market is telling us that they need certainty, they need to see where the economy is heading. If the government is committed to continue the Open Door policy, they will need to come up with concrete policies and execution steps to increase confidence.

  Zhang Xin

  Government, Doors, Needs

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The universe only gives you what you can handle, so trust that whatever is happening to you is exactly what you need. Just trust. Have certainty!

  Patricia Velasquez

  Giving, Needs, Handle

  "Patricia Velasquez – Supermodel, Actor and Author". Interview with Monica Melsness, nicheandnook.com. October 3, 2015.

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• Life is ever evolving. The only certainty is change.

  Allison McAtee

  Life Is, Evolve

  "Actor Allison McAtee: The best in everyone, being a crybaby, and practicing japa meditation". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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