#certainties

Certainties are arrived at only on foot. ↗

— Antonio Porchia

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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. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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

— William Reddington Hewlett

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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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Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties. ↗

— John Dewey

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Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous. ↗

— Melvin Maddocks

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Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

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