(327 quotes found)
“Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.”
Dylan Thomas
“The certainty with which a religious belief is held is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity”
Donald Morgan
“It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.”
Henri Poincare
“Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.”
Ashley Montagu
“The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.”
Erich Fromm
“Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away...bigger fool than when he came to it.”
Copernicus
“All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.”
Charles W. Eliot
“Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?”
George Eliot
“For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.”
Stanislav Grof
“Certainties are arrived at only on foot.”
Antonio Porchia
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