Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Knowledge breeds doubt, not certainty, And the more we know the more uncertain we become. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
If I've learned anything, it's really just to stop trying to find answers and certainties. — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
If someone loves you to the depths of their heart, they will never think twice about whether they want you or not. — Sophie Parkin Copy Share Image
I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. What certainty had he that a single human creature now living… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Often, the journey to greatness begins the moment our preferences for comfort and certainty are overruled by a greater purpose that requires… — Brendon Burchard Copy Share Image
That though we are certain ofmany things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remainsthe possibility of our being mistaken… — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
We find that the statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties…Time… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Copy Share Image
In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
I don't apologize for my behavior anymore. Whatever I do or don't do shouldn't matter. Moral certainty is dangerous. Moral certainty is… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed.… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. .… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
There’s faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and there’s faith that confuses itself for knowledge. The first embraces uncertainty, acknowledges the… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“I don’t know,” [my father] said, after clearing his throat. “But I know that he loves you.” . . . Twenty years… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“In some cases, I am able to respect what so many call bigots. Such people have a more solid foundation for drawing… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
as a bird swoops down on it's prey, and assumes this land bound wretch into heaven, so did romeo steal her lips… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
Recalling the aftermath of her father's death from alcoholism at age 42, this memoirist reminisces: I couldn't deny that our life was… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Religion of every kind involves the promise that the misery and futility of existence can be overcome or even transfigured. One might… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In short, is American life of the future to be characterized by freedom or by servitude, strength or weakness? The answer must… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
In my 40-plus years as a venture capitalist, I have come to appreciate the certainty a healthy economy provides for businesses both… — Alan Patricof Copy Share Image
Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Know with certainty that there is a God, and that there exists a world beyond this one - the world of souls. — Ostad Elahi Copy Share Image
Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down. — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all? — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its… — Arnold Gingrich Copy Share Image
History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“The Conviction Principle Convey certainty with words, eye contact, posture, and tone of voice.” — Bill McGowan Copy Share Image
Not everyone is trustworthy, but if you trust God, then you will be secure knowing that God is with you when dealing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
Certainty, and the innovation that thrives in a climate of certainty, are key to progress. — Andrew R. Wheeler Copy Share Image
Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image