#certainty

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

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Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty. ↗

— Rupert Sheldrake

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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

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