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Here are the quotes with the word certainty in them. To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it. — Bertrand Russell 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 A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end. — Henry A.Wallace

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To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

-Bertrand Russell

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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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A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

-Henry A.Wallace

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Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.

-Ruth Ann Minner

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For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.

-Stanislav Grof

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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

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To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

-William Glasser

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Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve.

-Pete Sessions

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When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith and the universe is built on faith.

-Ernest Holmes

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I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.

-James Lovelock

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The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.

-Jeffrey Kluger

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Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

-Garrett Hardin

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

-George Eliot

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Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.

-Godfrey Reggio

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Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

-Vaclav Havel

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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

-Vaclav Havel

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Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.

-Bruce Catton

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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

-Bertrand Russell

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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

-Hans Blix

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I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

-Polykarp Kusch

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Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

-George Boole

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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

-Charles Baudelaire

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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

-Karl Von Clausewitz

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Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.

-Wislawa Szymborska

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To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it. — Bertrand Russell
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
A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end. — Henry A.Wallace

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