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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.
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
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I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time.
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There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.
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We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
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Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
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There is nothing certain except the unforeseen.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
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The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain.
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A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
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The more I see the less I know for sure.
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It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
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Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
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There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
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Only one thing is certain -- that is, nothing is certain. If this statement is true, it is also false.
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In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain.
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The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
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There is nothing certain, but the uncertain.
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To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
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What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.
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The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
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Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.
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Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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There are only two things you HAVE TO do in life. You HAVE TO die. You HAVE TO live until you die. You make up all the rest.
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If you have a choice between certainty and hope, choose certainty every time.
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Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth; and truth rewarded me.
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He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.
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If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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