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• I never imagined it wouldn’t work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way.

  Ewan McGregor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Imagined, Certainty, Parents

• Don’t be too harsh to these poems until they’re typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

  Dylan Thomas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Certainty, Think, Conviction

• 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

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Hopelessness, Certainty

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

  Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Certainty, Cease

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Certainty, Desired

• I would say that without any doubt he’s the killer – the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty which I – there’s no question that he was the killer of President Kennedy.

  Henry Wade

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Certainty, Doubt, Law

• If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.

  William Barclay

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Certainty, Accept

• We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Tags in Bounded, Certainty

• And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

  William Gibson

  Tags in Certainty, Soft

• Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

  Will Durant

  Tags in Fatal, Certainty

• The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

  Bertrand Russell

  Tags in Intellectual, Certainty, Nevertheless

• 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

  Tags in Skepticism, Certainty, Dissipate, Absolute, Dogmatism