Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
George Meredith
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.
Charles W. Eliot
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.
William Reddington Hewlett
Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
Antonio Porchia
Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
Gail Sheehy
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Erich Fromm
I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer.
Bridget Riley
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoir
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
Vaclav Havel
It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.
Jonathan Carroll
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
Bela Lugosi
Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.
Steve Hackett
Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties.
Murray Gell-Mann
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.
Isaiah Berlin
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