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
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
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
“Roosevelt loved the subtleties of human relations...He was sensitive to nuances in a way that Harry Truman never was and never would… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Certain miracles that I beheld there have haunted my memory ever since: a gray April morning of sirocco, when the almond blossoms,… — Harrison Gray Otis Dwight Copy Share Image
She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to… — Steven Galloway Copy Share Image
Pour the bulk of your time into action, not deciding. The state of indecision is a major time waster. Don't spend more… — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is the first step toward understanding the process of real, lasting change: simply knowing with certainty that you can do whatever… — Bo Lozoff 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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