#certainty

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty. ↗

— George Eliot

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Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#humility #just #learn #sign #uncertainty

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty. ↗

— Nate Silver

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If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive. ↗

— Ron Silver

#attractive #day #every #every day #go

It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour. ↗

— Charles Sturt

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Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#certainty #claims #convictions #doubt #fears

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#born #bus #certainty #crowds #four

Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bad #beginning #clever #confusion #declaration