Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.
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Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.
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Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd.
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When salvation is viewed as man's program, it is left up to man as to whether he will let God do this or that, but when it is viewed as God's program, there is a confidence and a certainty that no one whom God regenerates will be a carnal Christian.
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It is suggested that, in domestic violence at least, the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detection and punishment.
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Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
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The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainty that just to be alive is a grand thing.
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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.
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When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless.
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I don't believe anything. I only know some things to a greater degree of certainty than others. - from When Galaxies Collide
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it'
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the 24 hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that.. Absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not one jot. The possibility is always there.
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We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.
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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.
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In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and certainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe
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There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
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The certainty with which a religious belief is held is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity
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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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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
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In essence we have become addicted to the certainty, sureness or sense of security that our faith provides
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There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will experience hardship and stress at some point.
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