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• The Holy Ghost is not a Sceptic, and He has not inscribed in our hearts uncertain opinions, but, rather, affirmations of the strongest sorts.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Opinion, Affirmation

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• People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? Can we get along? Can we stop making it, making it horrible for the older people and the kids?
  A man cannot know himself better than by attending to the feelings of his heart and to his external actions, from which he may with tolerable certainty judge "what manner of person he is." I have therefore determined to keep a daily journal.

  James Boswell

  Heart, Kids, Men

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• If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But I should have to learn from the bottom up, forgetting the theatre entirely and concentrating on the special medium of this new art. My mistake, and that of many others, lay in employing "theatrical" techniques despite every effort to avoid them. Here is something quite, quite fresh, a penetrating form of visual poetry, an untried exponent of the human soul. Alas, I am too old for it!

  Eleanora Duse

  Movie, Art, Mistake

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• I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties.

  Isaac Newton

  Conjecture

  Sir Isaac Newton (2016). “New Theory about Light and Colour”, p.10, Library of Alexandria

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• I know with certainty, that [an honest man] is not to put his hand into the fire, and hold it there, till it be consumed: And thisevent, I think I can foretell with the same assurance, as that, if he throw himself out at the window, and meet with no obstruction, he will not remain a moment suspended in the air.

  David Hume

  Men, Thinking, Fire

  David Hume (1894). “An Enquiry Concerning the Human Understanding: And An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals”

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• The whole social structure is now tumbling down, dethroning its God, undermining all its certainties. All this, wonderfully enough, is being done in the name of the health, wealth, and happiness of all mankind.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Christian, Religious, Tumbling Down

  Malcolm Muggeridge (2005). “Conversion: The Spiritual Journey of a Twentieth Century Pilgrim”, p.61, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Know with certainty that there is a God, and that there exists a world beyond this one - the world of souls.

  Ostad Elahi

  God, Soul, World

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• The world now has a new kind of hero, one who listens more than speaks, who preaches in riddles not in certainties, a leader who doesn't show his face, who says his mask is really a mirror. And in the Zapatistas, we have not one dream of a revolution, but a dreaming revolution.

  Naomi Klein

  Dream, Hero, Mirrors

  "The unknown icon" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2001.

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• I speak "with absolute certainty" only so far as my own personal belief is concerned. Those who have not the same warrant for their belief as I have, would be very credulous and foolish to accept it on blind faith. Nor does the writer believe any more than her correspondent and his friends in any "authority" let alone "divine revelation"!

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Believe, Doe, Would Be

  Collected Writings, Volume XI, p. 466, www.katinkahesselink.net. October 1889.

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• We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.

  Norm MacDonald

  Disappointment, Expectations, Said

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• until it had been clearly explained that men were always and always partly wrong in all their ideas, life would be full of poison and secret bitterness. Men fight about their philosophies and religions, there is no certainty in them; but their contempt for women is flawless and unanimous.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Philosophy, Fighting, Men

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

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• It takes twenty or so years before a mother can know with any certainty how effective her theories have been--and even then thereare surprises. The daily newspapers raise the most frightening questions of all for a mother of sons: Could my once sweet babes ever become violent men? Are my sons really who I think they are?

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Sweet, Son

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labors to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Mean, Mind, Gains

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• Man's quest for knowledge is an expanding series whose limit is infinity, but philosophy seeks to attain that limit at one blow, by a short circuit providing the certainty of complete and inalterable truth. Science meanwhile advances at its gradual pace, often slowing to a crawl, and for periods it even walks in place, but eventually it reaches the various ultimate trenches dug by philosophical thought, and, quite heedless of the fact that it is not supposed to be able to cross those final barriers to the intellect, goes right on.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Men

  Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ritual lulls our fear of disorder with the certainty of order.

  E. M. Broner

  Order, Ritual, Lulls

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• Biblical hope is not wishful thinking or an optimistic outlook; rather, it is a confident expectation based on the certainty of God's Word that as He has anchored us in the past, so He will in the future.

  David Wilkerson

  Optimistic, Biblical, Past

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• For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
  A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
  Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man;
  But it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool.
  I never made a mistake in my life;
  At least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards

  Rudyard Kipling

  Clever, Mistake, Men

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• What I need most of all is certainty.

  Milan Kundera

  Needs

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• Fundamentalists believe that we don't believe in anything. In their view of the world, they are in possession of absolute certainties, while we are descending into decadence. We will be able to triumph over terrorism not by waging war on it, but through a conscious, fearless way of life.

  Salman Rushdie

  War, Believe, Views

  "'Terror Is Glamour'". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2006.

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• I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, People, Understanding

  "Transcript: Barack Obama and The God Factor Interview" by Cathleen Falsani, sojo.net. February 21, 2012.

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• If there is any one skill that every professional must learn, it is how to brand himself or herself in the marketplace. A brand provides certainty to customers and lets them know that what they`re getting is the best. People don`t like to make decisions. Once we decide, for example, the kind of toothpaste we prefer, rarely do we change. We have to make so many decisions every day in our lives that most of us are overwhelmed.

  Tony Robbins

  Skills, People, Decision

  Interview with Dr. Joe Blaes, www.dentaleconomics.com. February 1, 2000.

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• Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Madness, Uncertainty, Consequence

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I'm not against religion in the sense that I feel I can't tolerate it, but I think written into the rubric of religion is the certainty of its own truth. And since there are 6,000 religions currently on the face of the earth, they can't all be right. And only the secular spirit can guarantee those freedoms and it's the secular spirit that they contest.

  Ian Mcewan

  Thinking, Earth, Rubrics

  Interview with Zadie Smith, www.believermag.com. August 2005.

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• The only unchangable certainty in life is that nothing is unchangable or certain.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wisdom, Fun, Certainty In Life

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• Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Learning, Destiny, Men

  "The Path of the Law" (1897)

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