Certainty Quotes - Page 30

• When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

  Rene Descartes

  Love, Dream, Ontology

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• The last word always belongs to the audience. ... Yes, that is a most powerful feeling. One that is worth savouring on dark nights when the wind blows. On the other hand, there is no way of ever knowing, when one steps out into that circle, if the connection will be made.

  Ruth Cracknell

  Art, Powerful, Blessed

  "Ruth Cracknell: a biased memoir".

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• He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Hair, Alive

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.120, Vintage

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• Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Mark, Gracious

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Love of God: An Intimate Look at the Father-Heart of God”, p.113, Discovery House

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• Only trust in God can transform doubts into certainty, evil into good, night into radiant dawn.

  Pope Francis

  Good Night, Evil, Doubt

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• It seems to me that self confidence and the ability to stand one's ground are essential if we want to succeed in life. I am not talking of stupid self-assurance but of an awareness of our inner potential, a certainty that we can always correct our behavior, improve ourselves, enrich ourselves, and that things are never hopeless

  Dalai Lama

  Stupid, Self Confidence, Talking

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• Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another's word for it. We need to develop meditation so that the understanding arises clearly within oneself. It is not the case that merely by listening to another's explanation our defilements will disappear. When we gain some understanding we need to chew on it again so that we see it for ourselves with certainty: paccattam.

  Ajahn Chah

  Meditation, Understanding, Listening

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• Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.

  Richard Diebenkorn

  May, Certain, Delusion

  Richard Diebenkorn, John McEnroe, Jane Livingston, Barnaby Conrad (2003). “Richard Diebenkorn: figurative works on paper”, Chronicle Books

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• Perseverance is more than endurance."
  It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen. Perseverance means more than just hanging on, which may only be exposing our fear of letting go and falling. Perseverance is our supreme effort of refusing to believe that our hero is going to be conquered.

  Oswald Chambers

  Letting Go, Perseverance, Hero

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.124, Discovery House

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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.

  Dan Millman

  Knowing, Doe, Accepting

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• 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.

  C. S. Lewis

  Father, Book, Men

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

  Mark Twain

  Blow, Wind, House

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.103, Univ of California Press

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• 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.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Writing, Kids

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• 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.

  Lorenzo Scupoli

  Christian, Fall, Heart

  "Unseen Warfare: The Spiritual Combat and Path to Paradise of Lorenzo Scupoli".

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• ...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.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Technology, One Direction

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• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Soul, Noble, Fundamentals

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy”, p.619, e-artnow

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• Certainty is the enemy of change.

  Salvador Minuchin

  Enemy

  Salvador Minuchin, Michael D. Reiter, Charmaine Borda (2013). “The Craft of Family Therapy: Challenging Certainties”, p.4, Routledge

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• The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Doubt, Lack Of Faith

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• 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.

  Julian Jaynes

  Self, Civilization, Understanding

  "LIFE" Magazine, December 1988.

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• 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.

  Stephanie Pace Marshall

  Creativity, Reflection, Discovery

  Stephanie Pace Marshall (2006). “The Power to Transform: Leadership That Brings Learning and Schooling to Life”, p.38, John Wiley & Sons

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• 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.

  Sheila Heti

  Missing, Soul, Goes On

  Sheila Heti (2012). “How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life”, p.6, Macmillan

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

  Emma Watson

  Trying, Answers, I've Learned

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Christopher Hitchens

  People, Allies, Impossible

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “Arguably”, p.15, Atlantic Books Ltd

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

  Howard Snell

  Practice, Listening, Quality

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• 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.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, War, Trying

  Winston Churchill (1959). “Memoirs of the Second World War: An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of the Second World War”

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