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
“we cannot predict with certainty the pattern of the war for which we prepare ourselves. We cannot, with reasonable certainty, forecast the… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
For more than three months, I had been president and primary owner of Spellman Investigations, and I can say with complete certainty… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we… — Moby Copy Share Image
The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides.… — Tony Schwartz Copy Share Image
Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments.… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
“When I say that a thing is true, I mean that I cannot help believing it… But ... I do not venture… — Philip Meyer Copy Share Image
For the first time in living memory, the whole class of graduates faces a future of crushing debt, and a high probability,… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But… — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image
The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Like Dvoretsky, I think that (all other things being equal), the analytical method of studying chess must give you a colossal advantage… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change… — George Boole Copy Share Image
Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman, Simone Weil said, seeing herself in the mirror, knows "This is I." An ugly woman knows with equal certainty,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without question it may be said of Vancouver that her position, geographically, is Imperial to a degree, that her possibilities are enormous,… — Homer Copy Share Image
Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness. But the strongest argument against Christianity is also Christians-when… — Joseph C. Aldrich Copy Share Image
She'd always known he loved her, it had been the one certainty above all others that had never changed, but she had… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
It takes twenty or so years before a mother can know with any certainty how effective her theories have been--and even then… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
Every patient reacts a little differently, both biologically and psychologically. The only constant in cancer is inconstancy; the only certainty is a… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
I believe that the day one stops being spiritual, one ends up being religious. I live by the adage that the only… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
As soon as one point is removed from the sphere of dogmatic certainty, the discussion may not simply result in a new… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Some people get certainty by working harder and saying I'm going to master something. Some people get certainty by lowering their expectations,… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When salvation is viewed as man's program, it is left up to man as to whether he will let God do this… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
The literal resurrection of every soul who has lived and died on earth is a certainty, and surely one should make careful… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
To me, ideology is corrupt; it's a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible… — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
