"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."

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"A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing."

Bret Harte, 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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"Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it."

Sibel Edmonds, American Public Servant

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"Nothing consoles and comforts like certainty does."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty."

Charles Evans Hughes, American Judge

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"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."

William Gibson, American Writer

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"I would say that without any doubt he's the killer - the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty which I - there's no question that he was the killer of President Kennedy."

Henry Wade, American Lawyer

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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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"The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind."

May Sarton, American Poet

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"It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all."

Henri Poincare, French Mathematician

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"A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing."

"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."

"Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it."

"Nothing consoles and comforts like certainty does."

"When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty."

"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."

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"Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read."

"What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?"

"Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world."

"Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."

"What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."

"Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace."