#certainty

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#conviction #hope #how #makes #out

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#certainty #life #life

We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, we can duck, that is all; we neither know nor can determine where it will fall." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 6 ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#uncertainty

She wasn't certain of exactly what they had together; she doubted Owen knew, either; but whatever it was, she desperately wanted to hold on to it. They were only at the beginning of what they could become together; if she could help it, she would do anything that she could to keep it from ending. ↗

— Dorothy Garlock

#uncertainty-of-relationship #relationship

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education. ↗

— William Glasser

#certainty #challenge #counter #domination #education

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#certainty #condition #his #man #meaning

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#charge #part #process #taking #uncertainty

But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#certainty #considerations #further #give #hope

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. ↗

— James Lovelock

#god #i #know #religion #requires