You can safely appeal to the UN in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down. — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
There was no way to know that certainty would one day become a luxury, too. — Therese Anne Fowler Copy Share Image
“It must be an odd person indeed that can say for certain they are normal.” — Initially NO Copy Share Image
Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. — Thomas Carlyle 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
In my paper the fact the XY was not equal to YX was very disagreeable to me. I felt this was the… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for… — Peter Elbow Copy Share Image
We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
We want to have certainties and no doubts- results and no experiments- without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity. — Shekhar Kapur Copy Share Image
Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
Our discussions of the economy may sometimes ring in the ears of the public with more certainty than is appropriate. — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
Clearly it is not reason that has failed. What has failed-as it has always failed-is the attempt to achieve certainty, to reach… — Allen Wheelis Copy Share Image
What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“We can never establish with certainty which part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions--love, antipathy, charity, or… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Of course, I don't know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
There is a certain blend of courage, integrity, character and principle which has no satisfactory dictionary name but has been called different… — Louis Adamic Copy Share Image
I have a certainty about eternity that is a wonderful thing, and I thank God for giving me that certainty. I do… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
... the body, normally, is never in question: our bodies are beyond question, or perhaps beneath question - they are simply, unquestionably,… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
The good gardener knows with absolute certainty that if he does his part, if he gives the labour, the love, and every… — Gertrude Jekyll Copy Share Image
Climate Change is a national security issue. We found that climate instability will lead to instability in geopolitics and impact American military… — Gordon R. Sullivan Copy Share Image
No sooner had he thought this than he realized what was anchoring his happiness. It was purpose. He knew what he wanted… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I am convinced that 1941 will be the crucial year of a great New Order in Europe. The world shall open up… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
For a Man cannot believe a Miracle without relying upon Sense, nor Transubstantiation without renouncing it. So that never were any two… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Lack of self-confidence is, more often than not, simple laziness. We feel confused and uncertain because we do not know. But instead… — Laurence Boldt 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
I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate. — Bethenny Frankel Copy Share Image
“We did not evolve by precautionary living, nor by hanging back for lack or certainty.” — Irv Thomas Copy Share Image
It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
