Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal. — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
When you know why you like someone it's a crush. When you have no idea why you like someone it's love. — Xashif Shah Copy Share Image
Not all is certainty in our world, Karigan. If it were there'd be no opportunity for faith; and then it would be… — Kristen Britain Copy Share Image
For investor confidence, it is important that there is certainty about the future of Ireland in E.U. — Jose Manuel Barroso Copy Share Image
There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty. — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
Only years of practice will teach you the mysteries and bold certainty of a real gardener, who treads at random, yet tramples… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
Even if one's head were to be suddenly cut off, he should be able to do one more action with certainty. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman, Simone Weil said, seeing herself in the mirror, knows "This is I." An ugly woman knows with equal certainty,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without question it may be said of Vancouver that her position, geographically, is Imperial to a degree, that her possibilities are enormous,… — Homer 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
“we cannot predict with certainty the pattern of the war for which we prepare ourselves. We cannot, with reasonable certainty, forecast the… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we… — Moby Copy Share Image
For more than three months, I had been president and primary owner of Spellman Investigations, and I can say with complete certainty… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I… — Ludwig van Beethoven 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
What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
While we were never able to provide 100 percent certainty regarding the disposition of Iraq's proscribed weaponry, we did ascertain a 90-95… — Scott Ritter Copy Share Image
“Like the body craves oxygen, the mind is desperate for certainty. It believes that without a safe foothold on reality, it will… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
Your body can dictate your mind, so when I walk to a fight a lot of times I'm scared, I'm scared to… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
Historians constantly rewrite history, reinterpreting (reorganizing) the records of the past. So, too, when the brain's coherent responses become part of a… — Israel Rosenfield Copy Share Image
The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“10% ago I was 90% unsure of what I didn’t want to do. Now I’m just 33.3% sure that I’m 66.6% unsure.… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
We have to be mindful that there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which… — Cofer Black Copy Share Image
“What’s stopping you from moving forward? The need to be certain. Certainty is prison. Break free and you’ll be free.” — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
“f anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
“One cannot escape from the world with greater certainty than through art, and one cannot relate to it with greater certainty than… — Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Copy Share Image
In the [John F.] Kennedy case, I believe the absence of a conspiracy can be proved to a virtual certainty. — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
Our hope is a certainty based on the truths that God is in complete control of our universe and that He loves… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“Curiosity is a worthwhile virtue than certainty. While the former leads to grow, the latter muzzles your growth and results in stagnation...” — Assegid Habtewold Copy Share Image
The universe only gives you what you can handle, so trust that whatever is happening to you is exactly what you need.… — Patricia Velasquez Copy Share Image
Endurance is knowing you're going to die every night. Faith is believing there is a tomorrow. Hope is prolonged torture. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image