Quote Genre: Certainty

Proverb – ‘If you forsake a certainty a…

‘If you forsake a certainty and depend on an uncertainty you will lose both the certainty and the uncertainty.’

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Francois Voltaire – ‘Doubt is not a pleasant cond…

‘Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.’

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Ralph Waldo Emerson – ‘When I was young I was sure …

‘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 … Continue reading →

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George Eliot – ‘No great deed is done by fal…

‘No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.’

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Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton – ‘There?s nothing certain in m…

‘There?s nothing certain in man?s life but this: That he must lose it.’

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Friedrich Nietzsche – ‘Convictions are more dangero…

‘Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies.’

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Tim McMahon – ‘Yes risk-taking is inherentl…

‘Yes risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise it would be called sure-thing-taking.’

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William Somerset Maugham – ‘There is only one thing abou…

‘There is only one thing about which I am certain and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.’

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Oliver Wendell Holmes – ‘Certitude is not the test of…

‘Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that are not so.’

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Philip Yorke Earl of Hardwicke – ‘His doubts are better than m…

‘His doubts are better than most people?s certainties.’

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