In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You must define it before you can pursue it. Know what you want, figure out how you will get it and go… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
“Only those could maintain certainty who were themselves of great permanence – like the stars, the mountains and the sea.” — Sten Nadolny Copy Share Image
One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
Sometimes, the stars line up, the gods smile, and love gets a fighting chance. Just a chance. That's all it can really… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Certainty in faith and doubt in reason removed the means by which to reach understandings or agreements on the basis of what… — Robert Reilly Copy Share Image
That tide of insecurity would come in and out over the years, sometimes stranding me for a while but occasionally lifting me… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
We must realize that the Reformation world view leads in the direction of government freedom. But the humanist world view with inevitable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Most people are great at absorbing information. Guerrilla marketing is needed because it gives small businesses a delightfully unfair advantage: certainty in… — Jay Conrad Levinson Copy Share Image
I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The reason that ego and love are not compatible comes down to this: you cannot take your ego into the unknown, where… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I confess that I have not cleared a path through all seven hundred pages, I confess to having examined only bits and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty. People love the president because he's certain of his choices as a… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The moral government of God is a movement in a line onwards towards some grand consummation, in which the principles, indeed, are… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
There were certain great principles involved in the organization of this earth, and one was that there might be a place provided… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
All those formal systems, in mathematics and physics and the philosophy of science, which claim to give foundations for certain truth are… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The best antidote against evils of all kinds, against the evil thoughts that haunt the soul, against the needless perplexities which distract… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Copy Share Image
“It is debatable whether blind faith is truly faith at all. Faith is the perceptive gray area where scientific facts meet an… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
All I'm arguing for really is that we should have a conversation where the best ideas really thrive, where there's no taboo… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Educators must resist the quest for certainty. If there were certainty there would be no scientific advancement. So it is with morals… — John Goodlad Copy Share Image
Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There are only two things you HAVE TO do in life. You HAVE TO die. You HAVE TO live until you die.… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
What if the choice isn’t between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the mystery and… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do?… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
One must learn by doing the things; though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without sounding overly pompous about it, I don't really trust certainty in anything, actually. Especially as I get older. Except love. I'm… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
A gift may not be able to represent how deep a person is in love with you, but one thing is certain,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Businesses need certainty, to see clearly the rules of engagement for investing in South Africa. — Nicky Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“In order to determine whether we can know anything with certainty, we first have to doubt everything we know” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
