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I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.
— Bethenny Frankel
Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
— Michael Faraday
Perspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter.
— Thomas H. Cook
Those who rely on certainties are certain to be disappointed
— R.A. Salvatore
God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts.
— Sylvia Plath
I want certainties, not endless indefinites.
— Kate Karyus Quinn
Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.
— Ralph Ellison
certain of certain certainties.......
— T. S. Eliot
Perhaps this was part of growing older, to undergo hideous alterations in the deepest certainties, in love, in lovers, finally in one's self.
— Elizabeth Harrower
The thing the Buddhists and the Sufis have in common is a belief that religious certainties are destructive.
— Luke Rhinehart
The few certainties in our existences are pain, death and bereavement.
— Jane Wilson-Howarth
The only certainties in life are "time" and "change." The question you must ask yourself: is now the time to change?
— Doug Pedersen
Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.
— Walter Moers
But I understand your doubts. They're what make you a great man, not your certainties.
— Louise Penny
If I've learned anything, it's really just to stop trying to find answers and certainties.
— Emma Watson
The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity.
— Christopher Hitchens
That was the way to start, he knew: with unsureness. Only when the mind cracked open its own worldly certainties could a glimpse of light appear.
— Joan Slonczewski
I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties.
— Isaac Newton
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties ... they live like ants.
— Bela Lugosi
our world has a growing need for people trained in profound degrees of doubt, more so than for people skilled at handling certainties.
— Nilton Bonder
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
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.
— Charles William Eliot
I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer.
— Bridget Riley
A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation
— H.L. Mencken
We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.
— Georges Bataille
Death and taxes are the only two certainties in life, as Mark Twain once said. Or was it Benjamin Franklin?
— Stephen Leather
The only certainties that don't break down are those acquired in prayer.
— Reinhold Schneider
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
While all the future, for thy purer soul,With "sober certainties" of love is blest. — William Wordsworth
One thing we knew for certain- despite all our certainties, it was very difficult to guess what one individual was thinking at any given moment.
— Joshua Ferris
Revolutions usually begin as replacements for older certainties, and not as pristine discoveries in uncharted terrain.
— Stephen Jay Gould
It's enough that if I am rich in anything, it is in perplexities rather then in certaintes.
— Jorge Luis Borges
The only certainties in life are death and taxes.
— Mark Twain
Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows
— Mark Twain
It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties.
— Christopher Hitchens
The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am writing because sometimes we are closer to the truth in our vulnerability than in our safe certainties,
— Rachel Held Evans
Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
— Antonio Porchia
The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
— R. H. Tawney
At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble
— Alister E. McGrath
My compulsive thoughts aren't even thoughts, they're absolute certainties and obeying them isn't a choice.
— Paul Rudnick
Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties.
— Murray Gell-Mann
One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided.
— Willy Russell
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
— Simone De Beauvoir
A barrell full of certainties won't roll very far.
— Gerd De Ley
