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Certain Quotes - Page 5

It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.

Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”

Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.

Richard P. Feynman (2011). “"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.263, W. W. Norton & Company

I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.

"House Music: Mos Def". Interview with Spank Rock, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 29, 2009.

We are the sum of who we are. We pick certain things at certain moments that influenced us.

"Q&A: Keanu Reeves on Making His First Movie, Man of Tai Chi". Interview with Calum Marsh, www.esquire.com. September 13, 2012.

When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.

Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.172, Tin House Books

Everyone expects me to do certain things.

"Rodney Mullen Skates Central Park". Interview with Alec Wilkinson, www.newyorker.com. November 26, 2012.

Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.

Richard Diebenkorn, John McEnroe, Jane Livingston, Barnaby Conrad (2003). “Richard Diebenkorn: figurative works on paper”, Chronicle Books