Although we may trust God's promises for life after death and the certainty of a heavenly home, we must still face the… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The Holy Ghost is not a Sceptic, and He has not inscribed in our hearts uncertain opinions, but, rather, affirmations of the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
A first fact should surprise us, or rather would surprise us if we were not used to it. How does it happen… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help.… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
“Only those could maintain certainty who were themselves of great permanence – like the stars, the mountains and the sea. And they… — Sten Nadolny Copy Share Image
Scientists do not believe in fundamental and absolute certainties. For the scientist, certainty is never an end, but a search; not the… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
The rise of populist parties such as the Five Star Movement in Italy and the Front National in France are rocking the… — Nicholas Bloom Copy Share Image
When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“But if the biblical story is true, the kind of certainty proper to a human being will be one which rests on… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
Let us never give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day. Do not give in to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I think uncertainty is good for things. Certainty breeds complacency and complacency means that you just sit somewhere in your nice little… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The Scripture abounds in commands and cautions for our utmost diligence in our search and inquiry as to whether we are made… — John Owen Copy Share Image
What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Throughout history civilian populations and political rulers have talked of peace. We have never been free of war. The soldier, whose profession… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
“In the nine years since [Robert] Harris’s novel [Conclave] was published our culture has, if anything, become more enamored with certainty, not… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
To say that one need art, or politics, that incorporate ambiguity and contradiction is not to say that one then stops recognizing… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking… It is… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty:… — Ruth Ann Minner Copy Share Image
It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations… — Charles Sturt Copy Share Image
“There are things you’re certain about. That you’d bet your life on. Things that you just know. You know the heat of… — Katy Evans Copy Share Image
The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast of Spain. Its movements have… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Be sure of the foundation of your life. Know why you live as you do. Be ready to give a reason for… — Thomas Starr King Copy Share Image
There are lots of reasons why a woman stays with a man, even when she's given up on changing him and can… — A.S.A. Harrison Copy Share Image
The whole social structure is now tumbling down, dethroning its God, undermining all its certainties. All this, wonderfully enough, is being done… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
We need to have complete certainty that things will work out, not because we are righteous or wise, but because of the… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
But no one can predict of a certainty what will happen. And none of it will change how I intend to spend… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
My opinion of mankind is founded upon the mournful fact that, so far as I can see, they find within themselves the… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
“But was it worth anything? That's the hopelessness of it. The openness of it. The part of it I can never understand.… — Katherine Ewell Copy Share Image
This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
My only complaint with 'Dickie' Bird is that he requires a degree of certainty that is almost neurotic; like the man who… — Mike Brearley Copy Share Image
Existential anxiety of doubt drives the person toward the creation of certitude of systems of meaning, which are supported by tradition and… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
until it had been clearly explained that men were always and always partly wrong in all their ideas, life would be full… — Dorothy Richardson Copy Share Image
Look at the chaos of European history. Europeans cannot believe in certainty. But Americans believe in certainty. Americans think this can go… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
![“In the nine years since [Robert] Harris’s novel [Conclave] was published our culture has, if anything, become more enamored with certainty, not less — which is really saying something. Ours is a culture, a society, that seems fantastically certain of certainty. Certainty rules our political…” quote by Junot Díaz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9f9/junot-diaz-531_absolutism_in-the-nine-years-since-robert-harris-s_856251.jpg)
![“We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.” quote by William Herschel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/44b/william-herschel-28349_america_we-see-it-the-as-yet-unseen-probable-new_93769.jpg)
