"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty."

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"When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone."

Loren Eiseley, American Scientist

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"Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode."

Nelson A. Miles, American Soldier

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"Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things."

Denis Diderot, French Editor

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"We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface."

Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish Scientist

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"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer

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"To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting."

Stanislaus I, Polish Royalty

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"I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance."

Richard Dreyfuss, American Actor

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"I am certain there is too much certainty in the world."

Michael Crichton, American Author

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"The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture."

Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian Author

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"Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men's dispositions. I suppose he has some test by which he finds out whom Heaven cares for."

Emotion

"Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation."

Soul

"Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope."

Hope

"Whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday. The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same."

Relationship

"Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them."

Society

"Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with."

Truth

"The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection."

Control

"Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things."

Quality

"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."

Nation

"Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music."

Happiness