#certainty

Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#amusement #anymore #certainty #convictions #destiny

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#different #fear #history #ignorance #immigrants

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It 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 #definitely #hope #how #makes

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.

#certainty #certitude #cocksure #many #test

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#become #break #cycle #doing #embrace

When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty. ↗

— Charles Evans Hughes

#certainty #deal #icy #into #law

If it is widely assumed that the new President cannot move forward simply because of a narrow victory, there can easily develop a sense of unease and uncertainty, adversely affecting every sector of American society, our economy and the perception of other nations. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#affecting #american #american society #assumed #because

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

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom. ↗

— George Byron

#certainty #doubting #envy #fool #his