Certainty
The quality, state, or condition, of being certain.
A fact or truth unquestionable established.
Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity.
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Certainty Quotations
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
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Voltaire
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
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
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
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
George Eliot
To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
William Glasser
We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.
Nicolaus Copernicus
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
Rudyard Kipling
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm
Certainty Translations
certainty in French is certitude, assurance
certainty in Hungarian is biztos
certainty in Italian is certezza
certainty in Spanish is certidumbre
certainty in Swedish is visshet
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