If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and can never soar.
John Henry Newman
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When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly certain than others
Bertrand Russell
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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
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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.
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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Tom Stoppard
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In essence we have become addicted to the certainty, sureness or sense of security that our faith provides
Leo Booth
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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.
Dr. James C. Dobson
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Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions
Edward Coke
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In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, no matter how many lifetimes you live.
Robert James Waller
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To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
Olin Miller
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When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.
John Wesley
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If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon
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