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“I dont know what to do, he said. No harm in that. Ive never known what to do, said Rincewind with hollow cheerfulness. Been completely at a loss my whole life. He hesitated. I think its called bein...”
“From whomsoever one hears anything, it is wisdom to understand the true import of it.”
“[I]t would be a niceness that was enforced leniently, patiently and gracefully, with the sort of unflappable self-certainty [they] couldn't help displaying when all its statistics proved that it re...”
“It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.”
“There you go again, declaring the exact inverse of your experience. You human pups are so full of the things you're sure of. Sit down and listen for a change.”
“It's okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy.”
“Knowledge is so comforting, but so is mystery.”
“Only by digging deep down to the core of our true self can we come to a place of inner certainty. Our underlying values and priorities are our personal navigational stars on life's journeyessential...”
“The only certainty in life is that all things will certainly change.”
“And I will wait for Jarod to work for me. For free, cause if it's paid, it's work and not love, unless, of course he loves to work, in which case hell surely love working for me, because I love peo...”
“Make an enemy of certainty and befriend doubt. When you can change your mind, you can change anything.”
“If the opposite of certainty is doubt, humility must lie somewhere between the two,”
“Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.”
“In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
“If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.”
“The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with certainty that they possess the right are dark inside and darken the world outside wit...”
“I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.”
“Whatever doubt might rise, he knew that he was right. But the rightness was an intellectual rightness and the doubt emotional.”
“Always doubtful is the one who always looks for certainty.”
“He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.”
