Certainty Quotes - Page 19

• That which draws us by its mystical force; what every created thing, even the very stones, feels with absolute certainty as the center of its being... is the force of love. Christians call this "eternal blessedness." It is a necessity of man for growth and joy.

  Gustav Mahler

  Christian, Men, Joy

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• So the journey is over and I am back again where I started, richer by much experience and poorer by many unexploded certainties. For convictions and certainties are too often the concomitants of ignorance. Those who like to feel they are always right and who attached a high importance to their own opinions should stay at home. When one is traveling, convictions are mislaid as easily as spectacles; but unlike spectacles, they are not easily replaced.

  Aldous Huxley

  Home, Ignorance, Journey

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• And when I hear it said that God is good and He will pardon us, and then see that men cease not from evil-doing, oh, how it grieves me! The infinite goodness with which God communicates with us, sinners as we are, should constantly make us love and serve Him better; but we, on the contrary, instead of seeing in his goodness an obligation to please Him, convert it into an excuse for sin which will of a certainty lead in the end to our deeper condemnation.

  Catherine of Genoa

  Men, Grieving, Evil

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• Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion of the Holy Spirit. Indeed, these human testimonies which exist to confirm it will not be vain if, as secondary aids to our feebleness, they follow that chief and highest testimony. But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.

  John Calvin

  Wish, Acting, Inward

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• People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs.

  Peter Drucker

  People, Entrepreneur, Needs

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.41, Routledge

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• Certainty abolishes hope, and robs us of renewal.

  Neil Postman

  Renewal, Abolish

  Neil Postman (2011). “Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future”, p.124, Vintage

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• Toleration, holding that every other man has the same right to his opinion and faith that we have to ours; and liberality, holding that as no human being can with certainty say, in the clash and conflict of hostile faiths and creeds, what is truth, or that he is surely in possession of it, so everyone should feel that it is quite possible that another equally honest and sincere with himself, and yet holding the contrary opinion, may himself be in possession of the truth.

  Albert Pike

  Men, May, Opinion

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• In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God.

  Simone Weil

  Belief, Divine, Concern

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.80, Routledge

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• I put heavy weight on certainty. It's not risky to buy securities at a fraction of what they're worth.

  Warren Buffett

  Weight, Heavy, Fractions

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• 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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• Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Giving, Doubt, Enough

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• When two people meet, as long as there is any form of rapport maintained, the person with the most certainty will eventually influence ther other person.

  Tony Robbins

  Two, Long, People

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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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• 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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• 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 am convinced that 1941 will be the crucial year of a great New Order in Europe. The world shall open up for everyone. Privileges for individuals, the tyranny of certain nations and their financial rulers shall fall. And last of all this year will help to provide the foundations of a real understanding among peoples, and with it the certainty of conciliation among nations. . . . Those nations who are still opposed to us will some day recognize the greater enemy within. Then they will join us in a combined front, a front against Jewish exploitation and racial degeneration.

  Adolf Hitler

  Real, Fall, Order

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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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• That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have.

  Richard Bach

  Worry, Survival, Concern

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• I'm a member of that half of the human race which is inclined to divide the human race into two kinds of people. My dividing line runs between the people who crave certainty and the people who trust chance.

  John Perry Barlow

  Running, Two, Race

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• For investor confidence, it is important that there is certainty about the future of Ireland in E.U.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Important, Ireland, Investors

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• 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 appreciated now, at all levels of society.

  Vicente del Bosque

  Football, Joy, Important

  "Del Bosque's pride in leaving lasting impression". The UEFA.com Interview, www.uefa.com. June 30, 2012.

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• No one can forecast the economy with certainty.

  Jamie Dimon

  Economy, Forecasts

  "Improving Housing Market Driving Economy: Jamie Dimon" by Margo D. Beller, www.cnbc.com. March 28, 2012.

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• What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true!

  David Eagleman

  Book, Numbers, Stories

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• It is certain because it is impossible. -Certum est quia impossibile

  Tertullian

  Impossible, Certain

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