God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts.
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties. . . they live like ants.
The Public. . . demands certainties. . . But there are not certainties
Fundamentalists believe that we don't believe in anything. In their view of the world, they are in possession of absolute certainties, while we are descending into decadence. We will be able to triumph over terrorism not by waging war on it, but through a conscious, fearless way of life.
The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.
Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties
The only certainties that don't break down are those acquired in prayer.
We are symbolic. We are driving to the edge of the city and talking in vague-yet-resolute certainties about our dreams and our futures. We are leaving certain things in the medicine cabinet. We are falling in love.
The world now has a new kind of hero, one who listens more than speaks, who preaches in riddles not in certainties, a leader who doesn't show his face, who says his mask is really a mirror. And in the Zapatistas, we have not one dream of a revolution, but a dreaming revolution.
I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties.
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.
Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.
Maybe that's what is means to be human. . . forever questioning our certainties.
While all the future, for thy purer soul, With "sober certainties" of love is blest.
Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows
The best antidote against evils of all kinds, against the evil thoughts that haunt the soul, against the needless perplexities which distract the conscience, is to keep hold of the good we have. Impure thoughts will not stand against pure words and prayers and deeds. Little doubts will not avail against great certainties. Fix your affections on things above, and then you will less and less be troubled by the cares, the temptations, the troubles of things on earth.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
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.
