#certainties

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. ↗

— Nick Clegg

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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. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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Certainties are arrived at only on foot. ↗

— Antonio Porchia

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The world economy today is recovering slowly, and there are still some destabilising factors and uncertainties. The underlying impact of the international financial crisis is far from over. ↗

— Hu Jintao

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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. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

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Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

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Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties of life. ↗

— George A. Smith

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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties. ↗

— Djuna Barnes

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