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certainties

Meaning

of Certainty

Source: Webster's dictionary

Examples

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. Simone de Beauvoir

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. Erich Fromm

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past. Isaiah Berlin

Certainties are arrived at only on foot. Antonio Porchia

In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties. Francis Bacon

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life! George Meredith

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