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“Faith does not rely on knowing anything with certainty. It requires only the courage to accept that whatever happens is for the highest good.”

Doe Happens Accepting Knowing Highest Certainty Rely Whatever Happens

Author:Dan Millman

“I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them.... I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.”

Men Book Father Walks Fields Products Findings Endless Certainty Grass Blades Blades Of Grass

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows”

House Doubt Subjects Wind Built Blow Certainty Damage Sand

Book:The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man

Source: The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man

“There are no means of attaining faith and certainty except through the Qur'an.”

Mean Certainty

Author:Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

“I know the exact date that I began writing Twilight, because it was also the first day of swim lessons for my kids. So I can say with certainty that it all started on June 2, 2003.”

Knows Writing Firsts I Can Kids Lessons Certainty Swim Twilight June

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“We should feel with our whole heart that we have no one to rely on except God, and that from Him and Him alone can we expect every kind of good, every manner of help, and victory. Since we are nothing, we can expect nothing from ourselves, except stumblings and falls, which make us relinquish all hope of ourselves. On the other hand, we are certain always to be granted victory by God, if we arm our heart with a living trust in Him and an unshakable certainty that we will receive His help.”

Ifs Feels Should Heart Kind Whole Helping Hands Christian Certain Fall Arms Victory Certainty Granted Rely Orthodox Stumbling Unshakable Expect Nothing

Author:Lorenzo Scupoli

“...the reason for [this age's] anxiety and unrest is because in one direction, 'truth' increases in scope and quantity - via science and technology - while in the other, certainty and confidence steadily decline. Our age is a master in developing truths while being wholly indifferent to certitude. It lacks confidence in the good.”

“It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.”

Soul Found Lost Fundamentals Noble Certainty Reverence

Book:Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy

“Certainty is the enemy of change.”

Enemy Certainty

Book:The Craft of Family Therapy: Challenging Certainties

Source: The Craft of Family Therapy: Challenging Certainties

“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”

“The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.”

Doubt Certainty Lack Of Faith

Author:Abigail Van Buren

“Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe.”

Self Individual Understanding Civilization Certainty Awe

Author:Julian Jaynes

“Learning emerges from discovery, not directives; reflection, not rules; possibilities, not prescriptions; diversity, not dogma; creativity and curiosity, not conformity and certainty; and meaning, not mandates.”

Creativity Possibility Diversity Reflection Discovery Curiosity Certainty Conformity Dogma Prescriptions Mandates

Book:The Power to Transform: Leadership That Brings Learning and Schooling to Life

Source: The Power to Transform: Leadership That Brings Learning and Schooling to Life

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

Done Asks Business Human Nature Achievement Deeds Certainty

Book:Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy

Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy

“To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life.”

Ifs Soul Whole Missing Goes On Certainty Your Soul

Book:How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life

Source: How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life

“If I've learned anything, it's really just to stop trying to find answers and certainties.”

Ifs Trying Answers Certainty I've Learned Stop Trying

Author:Emma Watson

“When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.”

Kind Confidence Edges Certainty Rough Tested Rough Edges

Author:Terence Stamp

“The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity”

People Impossible Certainty Allies Uniformity Tedium Rectitude

Book:Arguably

Source: Arguably

“The underlying aim of practice . .is to create certainty through the development of high-quality listening.”

Quality Practice Listening Development Aim Certainty High Quality Music Practice

Author:Howard Snell

“Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.”

Religion Certainty Correctness

Author:Margaret Heffernan

“The is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.”

Trying Said War Can Do Leadership Principles Certainty Exception Attempting

Book:Memoirs of the Second World War: An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of the Second World War

Source: Memoirs of the Second World War: An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of the Second World War

“One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, Right. Now I understand how this is done.”

Done Right Now Certainty Odd Mastery Odd Things

Author:Jenny Offill

“There is a kind of certainty that seems to characterize Jared Smith's best work, an understanding about place and the flow of spirit that makes you think of Thoreau along with a commitment as fierce as that of Pablo Neruda.”

Thinking Kind Seems Spirit Understanding Commitment Flow Certainty Fierce Best Work Make You Think

Author:Joseph Bruchac

“To say that one need art, or politics, that incorporate ambiguity and contradiction is not to say that one then stops recognizing and condemning things as evil. However, it might stop one being so utterly convinced of the certainty of one's own solutions. There needs to be a strong understanding of fallibility and how the very act of certainty or authoritativeness can bring disasters.”

Needs Art Might Evil Strong Understanding Solutions Convinced Disaster Certainty Contradiction Recognizing Ambiguity Condemning Fallibility

Author:William Kentridge

“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.”

Firsts Children Persons Age Strange Masters Reader Originals Certainty Narrative Invitations First Person Marie First Person Narrative

Author:Katharine Weber

“Certainty creates strength. Certainty gives one something upon which to learn. Uncertainty creates weakness. Uncertainty makes one tentative if not fearful, and tentative steps, even when in the right direction, may not overcome significant obstacles.”

Ifs Giving May Steps Weakness Overcoming Obstacles Significant Certainty Uncertainty Fearful Right Direction

Author:John M Barry

“The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.”

Use Order Moral Creative Poet Judgment Scripture Resistance Certainty Poetic Prophetic

Author:Salvatore Quasimodo

“I cleanse the windows of my mind, that it may become a mirror reflecting inspiration from the most High. I do this, not with strenuous effort, but through quiet contemplation, through gently reaching and affirming an inward recognition. I know exactly what to do in every situation. There is an inspiration within me which governs every act, every thought, with certainty, with conviction and in peace.”

Knows Mind May Inspiration Effort Situation Quiet Window Mirrors Conviction Certainty Recognition Contemplation Reaching Inward Reflecting Of My Mind Affirming

Book:This Thing Called You

Source: This Thing Called You

“New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities - in its self-congratulation a kind of San Francisco of the East.”

World Kind Self Facts Cities New York East Certainty Sentimental Congratulations San Francisco Great Cities

Author:John Gregory Dunne

“Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.”

Men Humans Government Purpose Ability Destiny Absolutes Certainty Human Life Sufficient Assurance Absolute Certainty

Book:On Liberty

Source: On Liberty

“There are two modes of knowledge: through argument and through experience. Argument brings conclusions and compels us to concede them, but it does not cause certainty nor remove doubts that the mind may rest in truth, unless this is provided by experience.”

Mind May Doe Two Causes Education Doubt Argument Conclusion Certainty Remove

Author:Roger Bacon

“The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts. And then let's give some more tax breaks to small businesses and large. And then maybe the American people will have some confidence.”

People Want Giving Break Cutting Confidence Taxes Spending Certainty Small Business Want U Tax Cuts Tax Breaks

Author:John McCain

“You can safely appeal to the UN in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.”

Nations United Comfortable Certainty Appeals United Nations

Author:Conor Cruise O'Brien

“From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.”

Men Mind Humans States Pain Nations Nature Pleasure Views Liberty Theory Certainty Human Mind Pain And Pleasure

Author:Robert Trout

“The first indication that we are killing our dreams is lack of time. The second indication of the death of our dreams is certainty. The third indication that our dreams are dead is peace.”

Firsts Dream Inspiration Thirds Killing Certainty Our Dreams Indication Lack Of Time

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Certainty ends inquiry.”

Ends Learning Certainty Inquiry

Author:Jacob Bronowski

“Certitude is not the test of certainty.”

Learning Tests Certainty Certitude

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“The search for the lessons of the new science is still in progress, really in its infancy. In this realm, three is a new kind of freedom, where it is more rewarding to explore than to reach conclusions, more satisfying to wonder than to know, and more exciting to search than to stay put. Curiosity, not certainty, becomes the saving grace.”

Knows Kind Stills Three Wonder Learning Grace Progress Lessons Exciting Curiosity Conclusion Saving Certainty Realms Satisfying Infancy Saving Grace

Author:Margaret J. Wheatley

“My only complaint with 'Dickie' Bird is that he requires a degree of certainty that is almost neurotic; like the man who has to keep going to the front door to make certain that he's locked it.”

Men Certain Doors Fronts He Man Degrees Bird Certainty Keep Going Locked Complaints Neurotic Umpires Front Doors

Author:Mike Brearley

“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?”

Knows Needs Play Use Walks Path Certainty Inward Insects Stimulus

Book:Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus

“I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.”

Doubt Moved Devotion Certainty Rebellion Uprising

Author:Phil Donahue

“A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those that form the system of physical science, even in those branches like astronomy that seem to approximate mathematical certainty. He cherished this belief, for it led to the consoling hope that humanity would inevitably make progress toward a state of happiness and improved character even as it has already done in its knowledge of the truth.”

“Gauss replied, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, that he had them long ago, all he was worrying about was how to reach them!”

Long Certain Worry Mathematics Math Expected Conclusion Certainty Mathematical Long Ago

Author:Rene Dubos

“I remember one occasion when I tried to add a little seasoning to a review, but I wasn't allowed to. The paper was by Dorothy Maharam, and it was a perfectly sound contribution to abstract measure theory. The domains of the underlying measures were not sets but elements of more general Boolean algebras, and their range consisted not of positive numbers but of certain abstract equivalence classes. My proposed first sentence was: "The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces."”

“Scientists do not believe in fundamental and absolute certainties. For the scientist, certainty is never an end, but a search; not the ordering of certainty, but its exploration. For the scientist, certainty represents the highest degree of probability.”

Believe Ends Science Degrees Highest Scientist Absolutes Fundamentals Certainty Exploration Probability Absolute Certainty

Author:Ashley Montagu

“Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to eternal quackery.”

Life Inspirational Silence Inspirational Life Eternal Mathematics Supreme Confusion Certainty Contradiction Quackery

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“Living by faith isn't living with certainty. It's trusting God in spite of unanswered questions and unresolved doubts.”

Doubt Certainty Spite Trust In God Unanswered Questions Unanswered Walk By Faith

Author:Rick Warren

“Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.”

Giving Enough Seems Decision Certainty Enough Time Whimsical

Book:The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“The only things of certainty are Death and Taxes.”

Taxes Certainty

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“I remembered standing in the middle of the street in front of The Crooked Bookshelf, filled with the certainty of a future. I had heard the wolves howling behind the house and remembered how glad I had been to be human.”

Humans House Behinds Heard Streets Middle Fronts Standing Filled Glad Certainty Remembered Crooked Bookshelves

Book:Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)

Source: Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)

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