(336 quotes found)
“Better the certainty of the straddle (packsaddle) than the mere loan of a saddle.”
Irish Proverb
“The important thing is to use today wisely and well, and face tomorrow eagerly and cheerfully and with the certainty that we shall be equal to what it brings.”
Channing Pollock
“The present is the only reality and the only certainty.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“There's no certainty to the next couple of years, ... . . . But people are paying attention now. And I want to put out a record when people are paying attention, because that's when it has the best chance of being heard.”
Andrew McMahon
“Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance”
Eric Temple Bell
“There is no certainty; there is only adventure.”
Roberto Assagioli
“To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.”
William Glasser
“Quit not certainty for hope.”
Proverb
“If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.”
Francis Bacon
“Love must not entreat, nor demand. Love must have the power to find its own way to certainty. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract. Your love, Sinclair, is attracted by me. When it begins to attract me, I will come. I will not”
Hermann Hesse
