“When you stop trying to force the Bible to be something it's not--static, perspicacious, certain, absolute--then you're free to revel in what… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our… — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
A compassionate willingess is required - as is the courage to live before the fact, before the understanding, before any rational support… — Clark Moustakas Copy Share Image
Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Oh, the truth, oh yeah, lot of trouble that got us into, didn't it, over the last maybe thousand years? Hitler knew… — Anthony Hopkins 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
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
The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise… — John Stuart Mill 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
Wisdom is not finally tested in schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Doubt is a profound and effective spiritual motivation. Without doubt, no truism is transcended, no new knowledge found, no expansion of the… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Everything had been based on a kind of certainty, a sense of man at the center of things, a sense of order… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Statistically it's a certainty there are hugely advanced civilizations, intelligences, life forms out there. I believe they're so advanced they're even doing… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Two men with a camera, thoughtfully observing the visual cacophony of one major thoroughfare and the complicated interplay of its history, its… — Vicki Goldberg Copy Share Image
Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If He had not known with certainty that He would be Master over sin and that out of evil would evolve the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Economic life should be definancialised. We should learn not to use markets as storehouses of value: they do not harbour the certainties… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Does not all the world know that when in autumn the Bismarcks of the world, or they who are bigger than Bismarcks,… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Dream life, I realized, was only confusing when you were awake. It was from the perspective of waking life that dream life… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
If ruling our world stems from developing certainty in our sanity, how do we discover it? The Shambhala teachings instruct us to… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“If there is any certainty in life it is in the tendency of the unexpected to reroute us along a path we… — Kimber Bowers Copy Share Image
“Establishing social certainty helps you build trust, develop rapport, and strengthen your connection. However, the right questions might lead you to find… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the… — Vicente del Bosque Copy Share Image
This was my voice, but perfectly wise, calm and compassionate. This was what my voice would sound like if I’d only ever… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the… — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
There is more to creative mastership than the surface of satisfaction and political certainty. The music of Joe Fonda is part of… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
“Instead of striving for certainty, we should be in constant search of doubt: doubt about our own beliefs, doubt about our own… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
Today the major reason for our interest in Flatland is that for the first time we can achieve some of the dreams… — Thomas Banchoff Copy Share Image
“In all his forty-eight years upon this earth, Barry Flynn was certain of only two things: one; death trumped life, and two;… — La la la Copy Share Image
Now it is firstly a matter of a clean divorce, because citizens and companies need legal certainty. Can there be a new… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
