Top Certainty Quotes
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
Pliny the Elder
The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.
Rem Koolhaas
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
If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.
William Lyon Phelps
A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.
Bret Harte
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The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm 
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It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose.
Clifford D. Simak
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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
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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
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No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
George Eliot
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That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.
Joseph Glanvill
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From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.
Robert Trout
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A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
Rudyard Kipling
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Popular Certainty Authors
Francois de La RochefoucauldHenry David ThoreauBenjamin Franklin VoltaireThomas CarlyleBlaise PascalBertrand RussellGeorge EliotCharles BaudelaireAnthony TrollopeDenis DiderotStanislav GrofErich FrommHannah ArendtPeter Drucker
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