Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“What can you do with a person who says that he is absolutely uncertain about everything, and that he is absolutely certain… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Defeasible beliefs provide the provisional certainty necessary to navigate an uncertain world.” — John Brockman Copy Share Image
Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It isn't the light you want to recover, it’s the certainty that there is only darkness” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
That was my gift . . . having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Learning emerges from discovery, not directives; reflection, not rules; possibilities, not prescriptions; diversity, not dogma; creativity and curiosity, not conformity and certainty;… — Stephanie Pace Marshall Copy Share Image
Your imagination is ten times more potent than your willpower. Unleashed, it provides a sense of certainty and tenacious vision that goes… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house,… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
I accept that life is uncertain--that the goal is not to become more certain about anything but to relax more into the… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of His… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In its efforts to learn as much as possible about nature, modern physics has found that certain things can never be "known"… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The significant contribution of empiricism was not the eradication of certainty, but the eradication of infallibility as a criterion of certainty. And… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
The dignity of the human person is a transcendent value, always recognized as such by those who sincerely search for the truth.… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I can't say with certainty that slavery would have ended more quickly and more completely if the South had been allowed to… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
“Humans may crave absolute certainty; they may aspire to it; they may pretend, as partisans of certain religions do, to have attained… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
General relativity is in the old Newtonian framework where you predict what will happen, not the probability of what will happen. And… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
First, the probable cause of AIDS has been found: a variant of a known human cancer virus. Second, not only has the… — Margaret Heckler Copy Share Image
There are five dark matters and five lamps. Love of this world is darkness, and the fear of Allaah is its lamp.… — Abu Bakr Copy Share Image
There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“Certainty is the culprit. The spiritual person knows uncertainty—a state of mind unknown to the religious fanatic.” — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“The certainty about the uncertain (in view to life) is that it will remain uncertain till the time its certain.” — Mayank Sharma Copy Share Image
...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“A certain way to have financial security in life is not enough savings, but enough ability.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“There's only one certainty in life: how you come into the world. Where you go from there is up to you.” — Katie Kacvinsky Copy Share Image
The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“We are between the wild thoat of certainty and the mad zitidar of fact - we can escape neither.” — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
American businesses are looking for are certainty and executive orders don't really get them that. — Eric Bolling Copy Share Image
Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but… — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
“No one can know a false thing, one can only believe it with certainty until it is contradicted. (Page 7)” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“All I know is that I'd rather face uncertainty with you than all the certainty in the world with someone else.” — Aimee Carson Copy Share Image
Dialogue starts with the willingness to challenge our own thinking, to recognize that any certainty we have is, at best, a hypothesis… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image