“If we linger in indecision, as does Buridan’s beast, we will not perish. We will simply miss an opportunity to act decisively… — Terryl Givens Copy Share Image
“Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“From the house of unbelief to true religion is a single breath; From the world of doubt to certainty is a single… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast of Spain. Its movements have… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
There are lots of reasons why a woman stays with a man, even when she's given up on changing him and can… — A.S.A. Harrison Copy Share Image
Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Our children take their flight into the future with our thrust and with our aim. And even as we anxiously watch that… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
For a Man cannot believe a Miracle without relying upon Sense, nor Transubstantiation without renouncing it. So that never were any two… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Lack of self-confidence is, more often than not, simple laziness. We feel confused and uncertain because we do not know. But instead… — Laurence Boldt Copy Share Image
Revolt in whatever way we want, with the spontaneity of the London rioters, with the certainty and willingness to die of religious… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Another thing very injurious to the child is the tying and cutting of the navel string too soon, which should always be… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Be sure of the foundation of your life. Know why you live as you do. Be ready to give a reason for… — Thomas Starr King Copy Share Image
Let us never give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day. Do not give in to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“But if the biblical story is true, the kind of certainty proper to a human being will be one which rests on… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“There are things you’re certain about. That you’d bet your life on. Things that you just know. You know the heat of… — Katy Evans Copy Share Image
It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations… — Charles Sturt Copy Share Image
Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty:… — Ruth Ann Minner Copy Share Image
“But was it worth anything? That's the hopelessness of it. The openness of it. The part of it I can never understand.… — Katherine Ewell Copy Share Image
I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
My opinion of mankind is founded upon the mournful fact that, so far as I can see, they find within themselves the… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
But no one can predict of a certainty what will happen. And none of it will change how I intend to spend… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
Existential anxiety of doubt drives the person toward the creation of certitude of systems of meaning, which are supported by tradition and… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
until it had been clearly explained that men were always and always partly wrong in all their ideas, life would be full… — Dorothy Richardson Copy Share Image
Look at the chaos of European history. Europeans cannot believe in certainty. But Americans believe in certainty. Americans think this can go… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
My only complaint with 'Dickie' Bird is that he requires a degree of certainty that is almost neurotic; like the man who… — Mike Brearley Copy Share Image
This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The whole social structure is now tumbling down, dethroning its God, undermining all its certainties. All this, wonderfully enough, is being done… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
We need to have complete certainty that things will work out, not because we are righteous or wise, but because of the… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
“Then he quoted from a French Jesuit named Teilhard de Chardin: “He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the… — Matthew Thomas Copy Share Image
Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of… — Edgar Friedenberg Copy Share Image
Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must always have their consequences.… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
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