Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
“Certainty is not to be had. But as we learn this we become not more moral but more resigned. We become nihilists.” — Allen Wheelis Copy Share Image
Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very… — Sibel Edmonds Copy Share Image
We do know, with absolute certainty, that [Saddam] is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
“The stumbling block isn't the certainty effect per se. It's the way that smart people are influenced by mere words, by the… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance. — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our… — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“When you stop trying to force the Bible to be something it's not--static, perspicacious, certain, absolute--then you're free to revel in what… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
There is a kind of certainty that seems to characterize Jared Smith's best work, an understanding about place and the flow of… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
The occurrence of any event where the chances are beyond one in ten followed by 50 zeros is an event which we… — Emile Borel Copy Share Image
The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to… — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take… — Christopher Hitchens 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
In times of uncertainty, we tend to move away from deterministic world views. And when we try to find moral footing for… — Gavriel David Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The kind of hope that I often think about…I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the… — Vaclav Havel 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
“Replace risk with certainty. You have no worries about losing control if you aren't threatened. Once you are certain about yourself, external… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly certain than others — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand. — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The things of another world being distant, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconvenience, we must frequently revolve their certainty… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
“There was something so comforting in the certainty that someone knew about your biggest flaws and was still willing to stick around.” — R.K. Lilley Copy Share Image
Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition; adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
When you've been living in hope for a long time as I have, suddenly you realize that certainty is far more desirable… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
“In art we do not make things any simpler by making simpler things. Reduction does not yield certainty, but something like its… — Kirk Varnedoe Copy Share Image
I don't believe anything. I only know some things to a greater degree of certainty than others. — John Ryman Copy Share Image
“Have you ever loved something so much that you never had to even think about whether you did or not? That's how… — R. YS Perez Copy Share Image
The best kind of men have a certainty in themselves that isn't done in when countered by a certainty in their women,… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
While denial leads to certainty, it is only the certainty of death. This is true for individuals and also for civilizations. — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
“we give up our freedoms and responsibilities in exchange for the certainty that comes from being told what to do” — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
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