Certainties Quotes

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.

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!

I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.

Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties.

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.