I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
People like definite decisions, / Tidy answers, all the little ravelings / Snipped off, the lint removed, they / Hop happily among… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there… — Nelson A. Miles Copy Share Image
“I'm a girl." When Deryn opened her eyes, the lady boffin was staring at her with no change of expression. "Indeed," she… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The first indication that we are killing our dreams is lack of time. The second indication of the death of our dreams… — Paulo Coelho 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
Watercolour painting is notoriously difficult - so much depends on directness and speed, and certainty of intention. Tentative or fumbling touches are… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
CREDIT supposes specific and permanent funds for the punctual payment of interest, with a moral certainty of a final redemption of the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
When salvation is viewed as man's program, it is left up to man as to whether he will let God do this… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
I believe that any intelligent person who reads the evidence will come to the same conclusion about 2004 election results . But… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
You should have certainty in what you do. Anyone who has done anything in this world was hated. If you're not hated,… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair… — John Piper Copy Share Image
the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Out of the element of participation follows the certainty of faith; out of the element of separation follows the doubt in faith.… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
PRETTY LITTLE LIARS works as a metaphor for our central human experience: we have no way to objectively know about anything, no… — Norman Buckley Copy Share Image
...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
“Certainty was to curiosity what the sun was to the wings of Icarus. Where one shone forcefully, the other couldn't survive. With… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Because of its concrete content, sense-certainty immediately appears as the richest kind of knowledge, indeed a knowledge of infinite wealth for which… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
