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"Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it'" »Johann K. Lavater
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"Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof." »Ashley Montague
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"The only certainty is that nothing is certain." »Pliny the Elder
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"I am certain there is too much certainty in the world." »Michael Crichton, State of Fear
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"In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain." »Pliny the Elder
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"To believe with certainty we must begin by doubting." »King Stanislas I of Poland
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"Inquiry is fatal to certainty." »Will Durant
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"To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting." »Stanislaus Lescynski
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"A reasonable probability is the only certainty." »E.W. Howe
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"Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"Moral certainty is intellectual immorality." »Kedar Joshi
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"Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists." »Thomas Huxley
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"Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one." »Voltaire
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"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one." »Voltaire
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"The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind." »May Sarton
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"We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency." »Jeremy Collier
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"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream." »Vincent Van Gogh
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"I don't believe anything. I only know some things to a greater degree of certainty than others. - from When Galaxies Collide" »John Ryman
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"Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"I prefer complexity to certainty, cheerful mysteries to sullen facts." »Claude T. Bissell
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"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out." »Vaclev Havel
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"Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion." »Mark Twain
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"No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty." »Leon Wieseltier
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"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out." »Vaclav Havel
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"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out." »Václav Havel, Disturbing the Peace, ch. 5 (1986; tr. 1990).
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"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers." »Erich Fromm
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"Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time." »Edmund Burke
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"Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther." »Isaac Watts
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