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«There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will experience hardship and stress at some point.»
«Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions»
Author: Edward Coke
(Jurist)
| About:
Certainty,
Uncertainty
| Keywords:
at variance, contentions, repose, variance
«In essence we have become addicted to the certainty, sureness or sense of security that our faith provides»
«In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, no matter how many lifetimes you live.»
«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...»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| About:
Certainty,
Doubt,
Hope,
Life
| Keywords:
absurdity, certainties, experiencing, first moment, given birth, hopelessness, nourishes, perhaps, profound, sense experience, soil, soiled, soiling, soils
«If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts: but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Certainty,
Doubt
| Keywords:
certainties, content, doubts
«If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and can never soar.»
«From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.»
Author: Tom Stoppard
(Playwright)
| About:
Certainty,
Facts,
Principles,
Truth
| Keywords:
certainty, derived, in all probability, obtained, probability
«When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly certain than others»
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