Certainty Quotes - Page 32

• If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet.

  Pema Chodron

  Planets, Ifs, Security

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• Certainty and similar states of ‘knowing what we know’ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason.

  Robert A. Burton

  Like Love, Knowing, Brain

  Robert A. Burton, M.D., M.D. (2008). “On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not”, p.7, Macmillan

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• The world is certainty a sudden place.

  Carson McCullers

  World

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• The image of the presence, whatever it was, waiting there for him to go -this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves as when he stopped short of the point at which certainty would have come to him. For, with all his resolution, or more exactly with all his dread, he did stop short - he hung back from really seeing. The risk was too great and his fear too definite: it took at this moment an awful specific form.

  Henry James

  Fear, Waiting, Risk

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• Joy adapts and changes, but it always endures,
  even as a flicker of light born of our personal certainty that,
  when everything is said and done, we are infinitely loved.

  Pope Francis

  Light, Joy, Done

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.6, BookBaby

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• There is no certainty of what will or won't be in our lives. All we have is this moment. The last is gone, the next isn't here yet.

  Curt Mega

  Gone, Lasts, Next

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• The Western World has been brainwashed by Aristotle for the last 2,500 years. The unconscious, not quite articulate, belief of most Occidentals is that there is one map which adequately
  represents reality. By sheer good luck, every Occidental thinks he or she has the map that fits. Guerrilla ontology, to me, involves shaking up that certainty.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Good Luck, Reality, Thinking

  "Robert Anton Wilson: Searching For Cosmic Intelligence". Interview with Jeffrey Elliot, 1980.

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• Action based on hope just felt better than the paralysis of certainty.

  Christopher Moore

  Action, Paralysis, Felt

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Coyote Blue: A Novel”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

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• The best kind of men have a certainty in themselves that isn't done in when countered by a certainty in their women, and they are much adored.

  Merle Shain

  Men, Done, Kind

  Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

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• When man thinks in self-conscious submission to the voluntary revelation of the self-sufficient God, he has therewith the only possible ground of certainty for his knowledge.

  Cornelius Van Til

  Men, Thinking, Self

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• Fashion is not public opinion, or the result of embodiment of public opinion. It may be that public opinion will condemn the shape of a bonnet, as it may venture to do always, and with the certainty of being right nine times in ten: but fashion will place it upon the head of every woman in America; and, were it literally a crown of thorns, she would smile contentedly beneath the imposition.

  J. G. Holland

  Fashion, America, Public Opinion

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• The abuse of the veto power has become so predictable that frequently resolutions are not even tabled because of the certainty of a veto against their adoption. Necessary discussion is thereby suppressed. Concerted action by the Security Council, the General Assembly and other United Nations agencies is necessary to prevent major human rights violations, stop ongoing breaches and provide remedies to victims.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Agency, Rights, Adoption

  "Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order". August 07, 2013.

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• It is wise to be sure, but otherwise to be too sure.

  Sophie Irene Loeb

  Wise

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• we cannot break a law of eternal justice, however ignorantly, but throughout the entire universe will there be a jar of discord that will so trouble the divine harmonies that in the rebound we shall find each man his own hell! The sooner we arrive at this knowledge, the sooner we take the certainty to our souls, the sooner do our lives begin to assume the square allotted to us.

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman

  Men, Squares, Law

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• Vast ills have followed a belief in certainty.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Belief

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• in this curious world there are certain beings to whom it is given to say of all things with naïve faith, not 'I shall seek,' but 'I shall find.

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  Confidence, World, Curious

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2008). “Max (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.130, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence.

  Tobsha Learner

  Passion, Sea, Desire

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• See that unfortunate soldier who is falling hurt to death ("tombe blessé à...", Fr.) on the battlefield; he learns that his folks have vanquished and dies happy. He detached himself from himself (s'est détacher de lui-même", Fr.), has identified himself with something greater and more lasting than himself; his homeland ("patrie", Fr.); thus, while dying as an individual, he has the certainty to survive in a larger existence.

  African Spir

  Hurt, Fall, Soldier

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• My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.

  Eugenie de Guerin

  World, This World, Calculating

  Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters of Eugénie de Guérin”, p.273

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• I love seeing somebody act real earnest and serious, like Jackie Gleason. He makes me laugh because he reflects back to me my own serious-mindedness and how ridiculous it all is. It's always easier to see somebody else in that position than yourself, and you laugh. It's like the classic slipping on the banana peel, or someone getting hit by a pie in the face. Why do those things make us laugh? Is it from relief, like: Thank God it wasn't me? Or is it something else: I'm being very serious now. I'm pontificating earnestly and solemnly about-POW! PIE IN THE FACE! The bust-up of certainty.

  Jeff Bridges

  Real, Pie, Laughing

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• Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

  Ben Whishaw

  Choices, Certainty In Life, Next

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Heaven grants the human being who has learned to live alone a deep measure of such rewards that verily would one hesitate to sacrifice such proved satisfactions, such rare unending possibilities of contentment for anything less than certainty more certain still.

  Cornelia Parker

  Sacrifice, Heaven, Contentment

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• Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.

  Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke

  Mother, Law, Common

  "The Dictionary of Legal Quotations". Book by James William Norton-Kyshe, 1904.

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• Warped with satisfactions and terrors, woofed with too many ambiguities and too few certainties, life can be lived best not when we have the answers - because we will never have those - but when we know enough to live it right out to the edges, edges sometimes marked by other people, sometimes showing only our own footprints.

  Rosalie Maggio

  Life, People, Satisfaction

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• CREDIT supposes specific and permanent funds for the punctual payment of interest, with a moral certainty of a final redemption of the principal.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Finals, Credit, Redemption

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1865). “The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States”, p.151

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