Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing more certain and unchanging than uncertainty and change. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Having faith puts us in a state of confidence in things not seen but already is. — Geraldine Vermaak Copy Share Image
It is the certainty that you are about to recover, that brings results, not the hope. — Emile Coue Copy Share Image
“One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“So many it seems, have made it their life's goal to bask in the ignorance of their certainty.” — John Chaplin Copy Share Image
Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“...but the loss of a memory, like the omission of a phrase during reading, rather than making for uncertainty, can lead to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Et Tu, Babe' was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
“I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
We are symbolic. We are driving to the edge of the city and talking in vague-yet-resolute certainties about our dreams and our… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
That which draws us by its mystical force; what every created thing, even the very stones, feels with absolute certainty as the… — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What I envy most about you and everyone else heading back to school is the certainty of it all. You’ve got a… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
I have a mathematical certainty that the future will confirm my assertion that aerial warfare will be the most important element in… — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“In some cases, I am able to respect what so many call bigots. Such people have a more solid foundation for drawing… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Recalling the aftermath of her father's death from alcoholism at age 42, this memoirist reminisces: I couldn't deny that our life was… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
as a bird swoops down on it's prey, and assumes this land bound wretch into heaven, so did romeo steal her lips… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Religion of every kind involves the promise that the misery and futility of existence can be overcome or even transfigured. One might… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In short, is American life of the future to be characterized by freedom or by servitude, strength or weakness? The answer must… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
We say, then, to anyone who is under trial, give Him time to steep the soul in His eternal truth. Go into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“If you build the faith to trust a friend as God, then your heart can never be broken.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom. — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
For those with ambition, reality is more of a creation than an unalterable certainty. — Lori Guinn Copy Share Image
While all the future, for thy purer soul, With "sober certainties" of love is blest. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
