#certainties

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

— Francis Bacon

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

— Djuna Barnes

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

— Charles W. Eliot

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

— Steve Hackett

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

— John Dewey

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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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

— Bridget Riley

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

— Bela Lugosi

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The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

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