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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
Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions. -- Steve Hackett
Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second. -- Paul Auster
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties. -- William Reddington Hewlett
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties. -- Charles William Eliot
Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties. -- Murray Gell-Mann
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants. -- Bela Lugosi
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life! -- George Meredith
The thing the Buddhists and the Sufis have in common is a belief that religious certainties are destructive. -- Luke Rhinehart
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer. -- Bridget Riley
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
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. -- Milan Kundera
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
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
When I was learning by myself, despite my parents, despite my teachers, despite society, when I was fighting for building my life as a young wire walker at age 16, I didn't have feelings, I had certainties. -- Philippe Petit
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
I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it claimed certainty. It was grounded on some fundamental certainties - axioms - that led to others. -- Tom Stoppard
The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties. -- Nick Clegg
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
The idea that the law should punish what is rude; that government should protect our tender sensibilities from those who would - quite often with shallow motivations but sometimes with deeper and more serious complaints - challenge our national certainties and rituals, should alarm and anger us. -- Nick Harkaway
The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded. -- Pam Ferris
If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble. -- Pope Francis
I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties. -- Isaac Newton
God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts. -- Sylvia Plath
The only certainties in life are death and taxes. -- Mark Twain
Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties. -- Michael Faraday
The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties -- H. L. Mencken
A barrell full of certainties won't roll very far. -- Gerd de Ley
The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. -- R. H. Tawney
The few certainties in our existences are pain, death and bereavement. -- Jane Wilson-Howarth
Maybe that's what is means to be human . . . forever questioning our certainties. -- Kay Hooper
The only certainties that don't break down are those acquired in prayer. -- Reinhold Schneider
Few things look as unstable as the rock-solid certainties of previous ages. -- Geoff Nicholson
Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties -- Murray Gell-Mann
Stop living the life with possibilities and probabilities, live the life with certainties. -- Amit Kalantri
I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate. -- Bethenny Frankel
While all the future, for thy purer soul, With "sober certainties" of love is blest. -- William Wordsworth
Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical. -- Julian Barnes
If I've learned anything, it's really just to stop trying to find answers and certainties. -- Emma Watson
What a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life! -- George Meredith
One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided. -- Willy Russell
Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble -- Alister E. McGrath
Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows -- Mark Twain
A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation -- H. L. Mencken
The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity -- Christopher Hitchens
I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer -- Bridget Riley
It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties. -- Christopher Hitchens
Perspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter. -- Thomas H. Cook
What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties. -- Mary Karr
We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die. -- Georges Bataille
Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material. -- Gail Sheehy
Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge. -- Ralph Ellison
What if the choice isn't between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the mystery and embracing it? -- R. Scott Bakker
Doubting things go ill often hurts more Than to be sure they do; for certainties Either are past remedies, or, timely knowing, The remedy then born. -- William Shakespeare
There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible. -- Jack Vance
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 -- Francis Bacon, Sr.
We want to have certainties and no doubts- results and no experiments- without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt and results only thorough experiment. -- Carl Jung
Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter. -- Germaine Greer
Sometimes, the stars line up, the gods smile, and love gets a fighting chance. Just a chance. That's all it can really hope for. No guarantees, no certainties -- Tess Gerritsen
There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will experience hardship and stress at some point. -- James Dobson
There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will experience hardship and stress at some point. -- James Dobson
Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny this force crushing me. -- Albert Camus
Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me. -- Lucille Clifton
You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring. -- Winston Churchill
The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument. -- Sam Harris
There are certainties in existence, but love is something much harder to define than light and dark, life and death. I think saying you are "like" someone in love sounds right. -- Abbas Kiarostami
Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-person narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly original child whose deadpan certainties are a beguiling invitation to readers of all ages. -- Katharine Weber
We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found. -- Tzvetan Todorov
In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt State laws are many and confused, because they have been derived from uncertainties. -- Solon
I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity. -- M. C. Escher
The rise of populist parties such as the Five Star Movement in Italy and the Front National in France are rocking the political certainties of the last decades. And that also affects the economy. -- Nicholas Bloom
The whole social structure is now tumbling down, dethroning its God, undermining all its certainties. All this, wonderfully enough, is being done in the name of the health, wealth, and happiness of all mankind. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
God's heart calls to our hearts, inviting us to come out of ourselves, to forsake our human certainties, to trust in him and, by following his example, to make ourselves a gift of unbounded love. -- Pope Benedict XVI
I want to speak, show, see, and hear outrageously astute questions and comments. I want to be on the sides of pleasure and laughter and to disrupt the dour certainties of pictures, property, and power. -- Barbara Kruger

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