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Friday, 21 November 2008
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"There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American." (Twain, Mark - America)

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Browse Quotations about Certainty

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time.
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth; and truth rewarded me.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.
If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.
If you have a choice between certainty and hope, choose certainty every time.
In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
Only one thing is certain -- that is, nothing is certain. If this statement is true, it is also false.
Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
The more I see the less I know for sure.
The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain.
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
There are only two things you HAVE TO do in life. You HAVE TO die. You HAVE TO live until you die. You make up all the rest.
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
There is nothing certain except the unforeseen.
There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
There is nothing certain, but the uncertain.
There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.
To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.
We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.
What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.
When we are not sure, we are alive.

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