Search in folklore: certainty

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Certainty is better than hope.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about hope, americans

If you forsake a certainty and depend on an uncertainty, you will lose both the certainty and the uncertainty.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

If you forsake a certainty for an uncertainty, you will lose both the certainty and the uncertainty.

Proverbs and old sayings Sanskrit about contentment

Mistrust is the mother of certainty.

Proverbs and old sayings French about mother

He that leaves certainty and sticks to chance, When fools pipe he may dance.

Proverbs and old sayings French about chance, dance

Pity him who makes his opinions a certainty.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Better the certainty of the straddle than the mere loan of a saddle.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

To believe in certainty, we must begin by doubting.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about faith

To believe with certainty, we must begin by doubting.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about faith

Never quit certainty for hope.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about hope

And slip na certainty for howp.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Who can say with certainty that one will live to see the morrow?

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverbs and old sayings about hope

Holiday of Saint Nicolae

Saint Nicolae is the spiritual patriarch in Holland, Russia, Greece, France and in a lot of cities from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Belgium. He is known as the protector of poor people, sailors, tradesmen,...

Traditions and superstitions Romanian

The opinion of the intelligent is better than the certainty of the ignorant.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about opinion