The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“If in the moment of doing you felt clarity, you felt certainty, then why feel regret later?” — Yaa Gyasi Copy Share Image
“Deeply convinced of the reality of the divine will, he (Lincoln) had no patience at all with any who were perfectly sure… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
Broken today, healed tomorrow. There's nothing mysterious about how life works, it just goes on. — Blossom Copy Share Image
In their leaders, advisers, and experts, people much prefer overconfidence, total certainty, to any kind of doubt. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“There you go again, declaring the exact inverse of your experience. You human pups are so full of the things you're sure… — J. Aleksandr Wootton Copy Share Image
... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If He had not known with certainty that He would be Master over sin and that out of evil would evolve the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Everything had been based on a kind of certainty, a sense of man at the center of things, a sense of order… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Statistically it's a certainty there are hugely advanced civilizations, intelligences, life forms out there. I believe they're so advanced they're even doing… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
Two men with a camera, thoughtfully observing the visual cacophony of one major thoroughfare and the complicated interplay of its history, its… — Vicki Goldberg Copy Share Image
To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“If there is any certainty in life it is in the tendency of the unexpected to reroute us along a path we… — Kimber Bowers 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
Dream life, I realized, was only confusing when you were awake. It was from the perspective of waking life that dream life… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
“promise you that it’s not. In fact, once you become even reasonably proficient with the Straight Line System, you’ll be able to… — Jordan Belfort Copy Share Image
As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great European war, and regards it with the peculiar… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
The term ignorant is indeed perhaps an overstatement, implying as it does that something is known somewhere, whereas in reality we are… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“Gradually I began to understand that it does not matter very much what problem, whether big or small, is tormenting us; the… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of… — Colin Greenwood Copy Share Image
“We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of… — Pierre Simon de Laplace 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
“Others may not understand your joy and contentment because of your certainty about who you are and why you exist. Don't waste… — Assegid Habtewold Copy Share Image
Follow your heart with no doubt. If it's right, you'll succeed. If it's wrong, you'll learn. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty. — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The appearance of an angel from heaven could add nothing to the certainty of the declarations he has already put into our… — John Newton Copy Share Image
Those willing to trade freedom for certainty are certain to find the cure worse than the ailment. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty. — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
There's two things in life you cant take back... Words and Bullets. So make sure you hit what you aim at and… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is… — Eugenie de Guerin Copy Share Image
“The only thing that holds you back is your certainty that your abilities are limited. You need to break that belief.” — Ivan Amberlake Copy Share Image
I will repeat a technique until it is mastered, no matter when that will be. One certainty though: it will be. — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
