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Certain Quotes - Page 15

There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.

Yukio Mishima (2010). “The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea”, p.51, Random House

Uncertain justice by a verdict is much better than certain injustice.

"Cases in the King's Bench" (1773), Hilary Term, 13 Geo. III, Lofft. 147 in "The Dictionary of Legal Quotations" by James William Norton-Kyshe, (p. 146), 1904.

Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.

Will Durant (1950). “The Age of Faith: A History of Medieval Civilization -Christian, Islamic, and Judaic - from Constantine to Dante: A.D. 325-1300”

There is no such thing as zero uncertainty.

Interview with Joshuah Bearman, believermag.com. September 1, 2003.

We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

Harvard Law Review Natural Law Volume 32, Number 1, November 1918 (p. 40)

Certainty abolishes hope, and robs us of renewal.

Neil Postman (2011). “Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future”, p.124, Vintage