Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Don't fear the possibility of a negative outcome; only the certainty of regret for not making the move.” — Gabriel Common Copy Share Image
“For instantly, as the sentence ended, there was infused in my heart something like the light of full certainty and all the… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
Faith does not rely on knowing anything with certainty. It requires only the courage to accept that whatever happens is for the… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it's not arrogant. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream." ~ Vincient Van Gaugh” — Evangeline Love Copy Share Image
There are many levels of life which we cannot see and know, yet which certainly exist. There is a larger world, vast… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
And when I wake up it's wonderful, like I've been carried quietly onto a calm, peaceful shore, and the dream, and its… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Sudden conviction races through me, almost terrifying in its total certainty. I can't give him up. He's the other part of me.… — Sophie Jordan Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a woman is afraid to be without security or without certainty, for even a short time. She has more excuses than… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“I can only say, with one hundred percent certainty that I love you. That I live and breathe for you. That I… — A. Meredith Walters Copy Share Image
It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action.… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
“Death is the one great certainty in life. That’s what my dad used to say. Nothing else is certain. Not love. Not… — Mila Gray Copy Share Image
In this way, we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) “the best part of one's life earning money in order to… — Rolf Potts Copy Share Image
We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In short, evolution is as close to being a scientific fact as is possible for any theory, given that science is open… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
To say that I have found the answer to all riddles of the soul would be inaccurate and presumptuous. But in the… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
If you are seeking for security, certainty, your eyes will become closed. And you will be less and less surprised and you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Nothing is certain. Nothing is promised. Just make sure to not give up on the edge of breakthrough” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit 'how-to-parent' strategies both seductive and dangerous. — Brene Brown Copy Share Image
“Properly speaking, there is no certainty; there are only people who are certain. —CHARLES RENOUVIER, ESSAIS DE CRITIQUE GÉNÉRALE” — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
I brought Hassan’s son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge. — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
Heaven is angered by my arrogance; my proof [of the four-color theorem] is also defective. — Hermann Minkowski Copy Share Image
What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Terrorism is based on two major pillars: One is injustice, and the other is a certainty of attitude, the notion that their… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Farmers and ranchers need long-term certainty about who they will be able to sell to and under what terms. — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all? — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image