Certainty Quotes - Page 5

• One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Doubt, Converting, Verify

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• Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

  Denis Diderot

  Religion, Different, Revelations

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.

  Peter Drucker

  Information, Economy, Born

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• To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

  William Glasser

  Responsibility, Challenges, Intellectual

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• When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

  Ernest Holmes

  Faith, Prayer, Doubt

  Ernest Holmes (2010). “Living Without Fear”, p.24, Penguin

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• I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

  James Lovelock

  If There Is A God, Scientist, Theologian

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• To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Birthday, Educational, Philosophy

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

  Adam Smith

  Travel, Business, Adventure

  Adam Smith (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Adam Smith (Illustrated)”, p.531, Delphi Classics

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• Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

  Tom Stoppard

  Beauty, Order, Joy

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• If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Life, Running

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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• It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

  Anthony Trollope

  Literature, May, Advertising

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Prime Minister”, p.530, Booklassic

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• I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.

  Wole Soyinka

  Confidence, Thinking, Self

  FaceBook post by Wole Soyinka from Mar 19, 2017

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• Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Happiness, Real, Principles

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

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• When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Law, Principles, Icy

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• I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way.

  Ewan McGregor

  Men, Thinking, Work Out

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• As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.

  Bridget Riley

  Aquariums, Play, Essentials

  Bridget Riley, Neil MacGregor, Robert Kudielka (1995). “Bridget Riley: dialogues on art”

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• When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.

  Terence Stamp

  Confidence, Rough Edges, Kind

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• Certitude is not the test of certainty.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Learning, Tests, Certitude

  Harvard Law Review Natural Law Volume 32, Number 1, November 1918 (p. 40)

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• When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

  Loren Eiseley

  Men, Light, Mind

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• We have to be mindful that there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which is us and our allies.

  Cofer Black

  Enemy, Allies, Terrorist

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• Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it.

  Sibel Edmonds

  Thinking, Chance, Certain

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• In the midst of the flurry - clarity.
  In the midst of the storm - calm.
  In the midst of divided interests - certainty.
  In the many roads - a certain choice.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Strength, Encouraging, Choices

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• ...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Statistics, Individual

  Sherlock Holmes to Doctor Watson in The Sign of Four (1890).

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• There are no means of attaining faith and certainty except through the Qur'an.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Mean

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• I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion with my previous researches. Disgusted at my want of success, I went away to spend a few days at the seaside, and thought of entirely different things. One day, as I was walking on the cliff, the idea came to me, again with the same characteristics of conciseness, suddenness, and immediate certainty, that arithmetical transformations of indefinite ternary quadratic forms are identical with those of non-Euclidian geometry.

  Henri Poincare

  Success, Science, Ideas

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.649, Modern Library

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