Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It may well happen that what is in itself the more certain on account of the weakness of our intelligence, which is… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him... — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The conversation, like many others I had with people on trains, derived an easy candour from the shared journey, the comfort of… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
What . . . is this testimony of Jesus, how can it be acquired, and what will it do for those who… — Keith B. McMullin Copy Share Image
Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it is useless to offer the most certain knowledge of the laws of numbers and… — Etienne Gilson Copy Share Image
It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we… — John Locke Copy Share Image
You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What with the political monopoly, the Cheka and the Red Army, all that now existed of the 'Commune-State' of our dreams was… — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
In some subsequent episodes, certain individuals have certain knowledge of certain events that they wouldn't have, if they didn't have access to… — Andrew Kreisberg Copy Share Image
Certain knowledge of what to fight for, and what to fight against, gives meaning to life and provides its own version of… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Science does not mean an idle resting upon a body of certain knowledge; it means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of certain knowledge: Awareness of our own existence and the truths of mathematics. — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
Success is not something that can be measured or worn on a watch or hung on a wall. It is not the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Computerization brings about an essential change in the way the worker can know the world and, with it, a crisis of confidence… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman,… — Jon Kyl Copy Share Image
Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released. — Ralph Steadman Copy Share Image
I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
