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Tag Name "Certainty" (672)

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There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.
Bart D. Ehrman
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Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode.
Nelson A. Miles
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The more you observe life in relation to yourself the more you will see the fact that you are hardly ever correct when you think about something in the future. The future exists only in imagination and that is why, no matter how hard you try to imagine it, you will not be able to predict the future with total certainty.
Barry Long
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The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children for a picnic on a doubtful day, they will demand a dogmatic answer as to whether it will be fine or wet, and be disappointed in you when you cannot be sure.
Bertrand Russell
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At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble
Alister E. McGrath
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Without question it may be said of Vancouver that her position, geographically, is Imperial to a degree, that her possibilities are enormous, and that with but a feeble stretch of the imagination those possibilities might wisely be deemed certainties.
Homer
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Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together
Hermann Ebbinghaus
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The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate it binds.
Albert Camus
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Our certainty that angels right now witness how we are walking through life should mightily influence the decisions we make. God is watching, and His angels are interested spectators too.
Billy Graham
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The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose, to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free society and are still among the greatest threats to our liberty.
Neil MacGregor
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Just because someone seems to have more certainty, doesn't mean they're right.
Tony Robbins
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Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.
Bertrand Russell
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The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.
Siri Hustvedt
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The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and never written, or talked about (the ego eventually falls apart like a soaked sponge), but simply written it's a dreadful, awful fact that writing is like any other work.
Janet Frame
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God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts.
Sylvia Plath
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Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty.
Marianne Williamson
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Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen.
Philip Sidney
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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
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Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.
Richard Diebenkorn
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Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I believe any decline would lock in a Fed increase with some certainty.
Bruce Bartlett
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My only complaint with 'Dickie' Bird is that he requires a degree of certainty that is almost neurotic like the man who has to keep going to the front door to make certain that he's locked it.
Mike Brearley
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Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
A.C. Grayling
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There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.
Jeremy Collier
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