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certainties
«All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.»
Author: Charles W. Eliot
(University President)
| About:
Belief,
Business,
Capitalism
| Keywords:
beliefs, certainties, in all probability, judgments, probabilities, proceeds
«Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties»
Author: Gail Sheehy
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Creativity
| Keywords:
certainties, described, letting
«I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| About:
Self-love,
Truth
| Keywords:
certainties, rewarded, tore
«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...»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| About:
Certainty,
Doubt,
Hope,
Life
| Keywords:
absurdity, certainties, experiencing, first moment, given birth, hopelessness, nourishes, perhaps, profound, sense experience, soil, soiled, soiling, soils
«Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
certainties, creativity, let go, let go of, requires
«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.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Certainty,
Doubt
| Keywords:
certainties, content, doubts
«Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
blowing up, blown up, blows, blow out, blow over, built, certainties, damage, damaged, damages, doubt, houses, sand, sanded, sanding, subject, subjecting, subject to, wind