#certainties

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

#certainties #comfort #i #love #me

I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer. ↗

— Bridget Riley

#certainties #christianity #had #i #i think

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#bred #ceases #certainties #change #doubts

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

#economy #factors #far #financial #financial crisis

And in life, at least her new life, chances were the best she could hope for. They were like her rocks. Imperfect and surprising and maybe better in the long run than certainties. Chances, she thought, WERE life. ↗

— Veronica Rossi

#chances #life #life

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

— Djuna Barnes

#image #makes #mind #stop #uncertainties

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions. ↗

— Steve Hackett

#deals #more #philosophy #questions #religion

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties. ↗

— William Reddington Hewlett

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In crises, the old is dying and the new has not been born. Hence, the revolts we are witnessing in Egypt and Tunisia, which may yet extend to other countries in the region, are full of uncertainties. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#born #countries #crises #dying #egypt

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

#birth #certainties #could #doubt #experiencing