Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties.
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All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.
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All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on 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.
quote by Francis Bacon
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If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts but if we begin with doubts, and we are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.
quote by Francis Bacon
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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.
quote by Francis Bacon
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
quote by Francis Bacon
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You want answers. Take doubts
You want answers.
There are no answers.
You want some questions.
There are no questions now.
You want something,
There is nothing.
You want this.
There is that.
This and that, they do not
Always come together
And wanting this
You only get that.
See? See.
You want to live in peace
No there is no peace
War has always been with us
You know that, not this.
Oh yes, you want certainties.
You just want to be sure
What is in my hand
Tell me, and I will prove
You wrong, always, I want
To prove you wrong
About certainties, there is
Nothing certain. They just come
When they like coming
And they tell you
You dream, we give
What is best, it may not be what
You are dreaming, or we punish you
By giving what you want
You prayed so earnestly
Oh! These lords these gods
This fate this destiny
They always wait for you
Always hazy, and taken as
X, y, and z
You, it is you that assigns the values
And you can be wrong and even
Still be puzzled.
There is nothing certain.
So?
Well, take the doubts
They are the only things certain
Because they are real.
We live with them everyday.
They are mothers and fathers
And yes, they are gods.
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Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
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Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
quote by Antonio Porchia
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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
quote by Erich Fromm
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What wise men suppose is worth more than the certainties of fools.
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
quote by George Meredith
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I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer.
quote by Bridget Riley
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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
quote by Bela Lugosi
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I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity.
quote by M.C. Escher
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Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.
quote by Steve Hackett
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
quote by Simone de Beauvoir
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.
quote by Simone de Beauvoir
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Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity...
quote by Vaclav Havel
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Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
quote by Vaclav Havel
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