Learn to live without self concern. For this you must know your own true being as indomitable, fearless and ever victorious. Once… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“All you need are these: certainty of judgment in the present moment; action for the common good in the present moment; and… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
It's strange, isn't it, how the idea of belonging to someone can sound so great? It can be comforting, the way it… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
The more you observe life in relation to yourself the more you will see the fact that you are hardly ever correct… — Barry Long Copy Share Image
My teacher, Hopkins, often commented on the craving for certainty that led so many physicists into mysticism or into the Church and… — Norman Pirie Copy Share Image
I'm sure one of the frustrations of being a Western enthusiast of Japanese food and culture is you're confronted every day with… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
What has the Cross left in each of us? You see, it gives us a treasure that no one else can give:… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
If you raise your standards but don't really believe you can meet them, you've already sabotaged yourself. You won't even try; you'll… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessness–like how a person alone for too long… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
When shall I at last retire into solitude alone, without companions, without joy and without sorrow, with only the sacred certainty that… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The issue here is this, that the Government's argument at the present moment is the argument that now the war is over,… — Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Copy Share Image
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What visual information does is it creates priorities. You cannot know with certainty what lies behind something else. There are very few… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
we cannot break a law of eternal justice, however ignorantly, but throughout the entire universe will there be a jar of discord… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
Subatomic particles do not exist but rather show 'tendencies to exist', and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
All speech should be presumed to be protected by the Constitution, and a heavy burden should be placed on those who would… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
We know with certainty that the Obama administration has re-defined 'militants' to include any military-age males they kill regardless of whether they… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
A geometrical theory in physical interpretation can never be validated with mathematical certainty ... ; like any other theory of empirical science,… — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
Christian hypocrites who pretend to hate life and love death. He may talk about the soul-what he is after is the girl… — Georg Ebers Copy Share Image
I know with certainty, that [an honest man] is not to put his hand into the fire, and hold it there, till… — David Hume Copy Share Image
To tell you the truth, the older I get, the less I know. I keep meeting people, both older and younger, who… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
I remembered standing in the middle of the street in front of The Crooked Bookshelf, filled with the certainty of a future.… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even as a teenager, I felt that for whatever reason that we were living very close to the end of human history.… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the… — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
The disappointed man turns his thoughts toward a state of existence where his wiser desires may be fixed with the certainty of… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
“The future isn’t written in the stars. There are no guarantees. So claim your adulthood. Be intentional. Get to work. Pick your… — Meg Jay Copy Share Image
To find the length of an object, we have to perform certain physical operations. The concept of length is therefore fixed when… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
I would say that without any doubt he's the killer - the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral… — Henry Wade Copy Share Image
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
[An artist] will sooner and with more certainty, establish the character of skeletons, than the most learned anatomist, whose eye has not… — Rembrandt Peale Copy Share Image
“In this world, what is here is not necessarily here, and what is now may not really be now: place and time… — Amir Aczel Copy Share Image
A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
The world now has a new kind of hero, one who listens more than speaks, who preaches in riddles not in certainties,… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“...the absence of certainty does not mean that one interpretation is as valid as any other. Probabilities and plausibilities matter; and when… — Mary Lefkowitz 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… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image