You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
The search for the lessons of the new science is still in progress, really in its infancy. In this realm, three is… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither… — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door. — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action.… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
This is what it is to be human: to see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving -- and to… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
The more you observe life in relation to yourself the more you will see the fact that you are hardly ever correct… — Barry Long Copy Share Image
If you raise your standards but don't really believe you can meet them, you've already sabotaged yourself. You won't even try; you'll… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Large waves of love and romance are nice, but all waves of strong feeling, with their inherent illusion of certainty, must eventually… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But… — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image
One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
A fighter in his prime needs to stay active. A fighter, who doesn't have certainty when he's going to fight again, it's… — Daniel Jacobs Copy Share Image
The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you… — David Auburn Copy Share Image
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life! - In tragic hints here see… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much… — Paul Outerbridge Copy Share Image
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth! — Sophocles 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
Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
This surpassed the fear of death. Death would be a mercy if it would make the feeling stop, the uncontrollable panic mingling… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
