Quotes with certainty

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  • Will Durant Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Will Durant Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Anthony Trollope It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Bill Ackman It is a certainty that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme. We believe it's harming a population of low-income, principally Hispanic people in the U.S. to benefit a handful of super wealthy people at the top of the pyramid.
    Bill Ackman
    American investor (1966 - )
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  • Edmund Burke Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • George Eliot No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • George Eliot Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Thomas Carlyle One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Stephen Vizinczey Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth
    Stephen Vizinczey
    Hungarian writer and critic (1933 - 2021)
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  • C. E. Montague Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have Certainty without any proof.
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  • Bruce Catton 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
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Mark Rutherford The demand for certainty is a sign of weakness, and if we persist in it induces paralysis.
    Mark Rutherford's Deliverance (1885) p. 206
    Mark Rutherford
    British composer (1831 - 1913)
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  • W. White The demand for certainty is a sign of weakness, and if we persist in it, induces paralysis.
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  • Seneca The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Conor Cruise O'Brien The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail. You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
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  • Hannah Arendt The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • John F. Kennedy The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Mychal Wynn The only certainty about following the crowd is that you will all get there together.
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  • Pliny the Elder The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
    Pliny the Elder
    Roman author, naturalist and natural (23 - 79)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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