He'd gone to Louddon's fortress to take Madelyne captive. His plan was revenge; an eye for an eye. And that had been… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If the evidence is strong enough, you are convinced that there is no other reasonable answer. Your resulting sense of certainty feels… — Robert Burton M.D Copy Share Image
Whenever a man is known to seek promotion by intrigue, by temporizing, or by resorting to the haunts of vulgarity and vice… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labors to find within itself the means of happiness,… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
... moral certainty is certainty which is sufficient to regulate our behaviour, or which measures up to the certainty we have on… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
We are talking about capital-intensive enterprises, so market certainty is the key. Investors and entrepreneurs have to know that there will be… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“To begin with clear and self-evident principles, to advance by timorous and sure steps, to review frequently our conclusions, and examine accurately… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I sat there beside him till morning - and as I watched his face in the starlight, then the first ray of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound; and that supremely real and rational… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I was the subject of an experiment in love. I lived my life under her gaze, undergoing certain trials for her so… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The more I think on it the more I realize that certainty is an illusion. History was written by the winner, the… — G. Michael Vasey Copy Share Image
Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“the goals are the same: to see the future as multiple possibilities rather than one predetermined outcome; to identify what you do… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
The last word always belongs to the audience. ... Yes, that is a most powerful feeling. One that is worth savouring on… — Ruth Cracknell Copy Share Image
Things always change when someone you love dies. You just can't prepare youself for those changes no matter what you do in… — J.A. Redmerski Copy Share Image
Where there is pain, there will be strength. Where there is sadness, there will be wisdom. And where there is fear, there… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Inspiration has become this word that people tend to talk about as something from the outside. The truth is that... it is… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
The fatal hour of this ancient game is approaching. In its modern form this game will soon die a drawing death -… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there… — Nelson A. Miles Copy Share Image
If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is certainty in a ring. The non-ending, the non-beginning. The ongoing. The way it holds on to you not because it's… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The sun meets not the springing bud that stretches towards him with half the certainty that God, the source of all good,… — William Law Copy Share Image
Faith was intended precisely for the simple, but the quest for certainty and simplicity becomes dangerous when it leads to fanaticism and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We must ensure that more binding, durable, and enforceable fiscal rules go hand-in-hand with funding certainty for countries pursuing sound and sustainable… — Enda Kenny Copy Share Image
“Once a person believes - really believes - that certain ideas can lead to eternal happiness, or to its antithesis, he cannot… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system.… — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
Learning emerges from discovery, not directives; reflection, not rules; possibilities, not prescriptions; diversity, not dogma; creativity and curiosity, not conformity and certainty;… — Stephanie Pace Marshall Copy Share Image
“Life seemed to him a gift; the statement ‘I am alive’ seemed to him to contain a satisfactory certainty and many other… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
The truth that I know for sure is that I may have an opinion, but I do not know the truth, and… — Grant Bowler Copy Share Image
“I do not rest on the broad upland of a system that includes a series of sure statements about the absolutes, but… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
“My only certainty in life is that I shall one day die. I can be certain of nothing else in the future.… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Certainty was to curiosity what the sun was to the wings of Icarus. Where one shone forcefully, the other couldn't survive. With… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
That though we are certain ofmany things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remainsthe possibility of our being mistaken… — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
We find that the statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties…Time… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Copy Share Image