Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
We are talking about capital-intensive enterprises, so market certainty is the key. Investors and entrepreneurs have to know that there will be… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
... moral certainty is certainty which is sufficient to regulate our behaviour, or which measures up to the certainty we have on… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labors to find within itself the means of happiness,… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of… — Edgar Friedenberg Copy Share Image
“Then he quoted from a French Jesuit named Teilhard de Chardin: “He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the… — Matthew Thomas Copy Share Image
Whenever a man is known to seek promotion by intrigue, by temporizing, or by resorting to the haunts of vulgarity and vice… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
One of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Since I found that one could make a case shadow from a three-dimensional thing, any object whatsoever - just as the projecting… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
"What is the meaning of life?" This question has no answer except in the history of how it came to be asked.… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
“Man … has the wish not to die. This wish is originally identical with the instinct of self-preservation. … Subsequently, … this… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“You must not face it. Because it is a – certainty it has to be forgotten. One cannot – must not –… — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
Organisms [...] are directed and limited by their past. They must remain imperfect in their form and function, and to that extent… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
But there were other, vaguer, harder-to-pin-down feelings, like: a pit in the stomach that means something is either really good or really… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
He'd gone to Louddon's fortress to take Madelyne captive. His plan was revenge; an eye for an eye. And that had been… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If the evidence is strong enough, you are convinced that there is no other reasonable answer. Your resulting sense of certainty feels… — Robert Burton M.D Copy Share Image
Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must always have their consequences.… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The fatal hour of this ancient game is approaching. In its modern form this game will soon die a drawing death -… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there… — Nelson A. Miles Copy Share Image
Inspiration has become this word that people tend to talk about as something from the outside. The truth is that... it is… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Things always change when someone you love dies. You just can't prepare youself for those changes no matter what you do in… — J.A. Redmerski Copy Share Image
Where there is pain, there will be strength. Where there is sadness, there will be wisdom. And where there is fear, there… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
The sun meets not the springing bud that stretches towards him with half the certainty that God, the source of all good,… — William Law Copy Share Image
If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is certainty in a ring. The non-ending, the non-beginning. The ongoing. The way it holds on to you not because it's… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The last word always belongs to the audience. ... Yes, that is a most powerful feeling. One that is worth savouring on… — Ruth Cracknell Copy Share Image
If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose everything, to let… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
'Belief' means something that you do not know. You want to assume and bring a certainty to something that you do not… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Overcoming one of my limiting beliefs, "girls are not as strong as men, therefore we cannot attempt the same physical challenges." I… — Lynsey Dyer 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
Through positive thinking and related approaches, we seek the safety and solid ground of certainty, of knowing how the future will turn… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
People who have never run even a modest little business assert with great certainty and indignation that heads of multinational corporations are… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There are two modes of knowledge: through argument and through experience. Argument brings conclusions and compels us to concede them, but it… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
![“Man … has the wish not to die. This wish is originally identical with the instinct of self-preservation. … Subsequently, … this primary negative wish becomes the positive wish for a life, and a better life, after death. … [T]his wish involves the further wish for the certainty of its fulfilment…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/59d/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_better-life_man-has-the-wish-not-to-die-this-wish-is_2761847.jpg)
![“Organisms [...] are directed and limited by their past. They must remain imperfect in their form and function, and to that extent unpredictable since they are not optimal machines. We cannot know their future with certainty, if only because a myriad of quirky functional shifts lie within the…” quote by Stephen Jay Gould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/92a/stephen-jay-gould-885_adapted_organisms-are-directed-and-limited-by-th_660291.jpg)
