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CertaintyFound 24 items. Pages: 1 2 >>sort alphabetically | sort by highest rating  (169 votes) Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.Henri Frederic Amiel 1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic Rate this quote: (bad)<  > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website (148 votes) The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are.Robert Browning 1812-1889, British Poet Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website (128 votes) Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.R. I. Fitzhenry Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website (82 votes) It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.H. L. Mencken 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website (62 votes) What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.Bertrand Russell 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website (40 votes) The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.William Butler Yeats 1865-1939, Irish Poet, Playwright. Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website (39 votes) If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website (36 votes) To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website (36 votes) We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.Albert Camus 1913-1960, French Existential Writer Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website (32 votes) Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.Laurence Sterne 1713-1768, British Author Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website (31 votes) If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889-1951, Austrian Philosopher Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website (24 votes) Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.Voltaire 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website (24 votes) Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website (24 votes) The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain.John F. Kennedy 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website (24 votes) There is nothing certain, but the uncertain.Proverb Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website Found 24 items. Pages: 1 2 >> |
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