Certainty

(115 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

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(108 votes)   What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.

Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

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(106 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

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(87 votes)   To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin

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(81 votes)   The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

William Butler Yeats
1865-1939, Irish Poet, Playwright.

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(80 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

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(69 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

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(67 votes)   If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
1889-1951, Austrian Philosopher

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(67 votes)   The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain.

John F. Kennedy
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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(63 votes)   Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

Voltaire
1694-1778, French Historian, Writer

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(53 votes)   There is nothing certain, but the uncertain.

Proverbs

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(52 votes)   Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(44 votes)   The present is the only reality and the only certainty.

Arthur Schopenhauer
1788-1860, German Philosopher

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(40 votes)   If you have a choice between certainty and hope, choose certainty every time.

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(39 votes)   He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.

Tad Williams
American Author

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