We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
All writers--all beings--are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
“When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
As soon as one point alone is removed from the sphere of dogmatic certainty, the discussion will not simply result in a… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The only result my father got for his money was the certainty that his son had laid faultlessly the foundation of a… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
The Western World has been brainwashed by Aristotle for the last 2,500 years. The unconscious, not quite articulate, belief of most Occidentals… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Know for a certainty that if men understood how terrible is even one solitary sin, they would rather be cast into a… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind. Difficult or easy, the Buddha said… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
The court was unable to rule on all circumstances in which nuclear weapons might be used, and it said in view of… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And when I hear it said that God is good and He will pardon us, and then see that men cease not… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
I'm not against religion in the sense that I feel I can't tolerate it, but I think written into the rubric of… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the assurance of a happy future, we are “crying for the moon.”… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Since reasoning , or inference, the principal subject of logic, is an operation which usually takes place by means of words ,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You can't deny that there's something between us." "No. There is. When I saw you today--I didn't know I'd been waiting for… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still… — Cameron Mackintosh Copy Share Image
This surpassed the fear of death. Death would be a mercy if it would make the feeling stop, the uncontrollable panic mingling… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
The emotionally mature individual should completely accept the fact that we live in a world of probability and chance, where there are… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent.… — Pat Tiberi Copy Share Image
Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep… — William James Copy Share Image
To search means, first, I need Being, Truth; second, I do not know where to find it; and third, an action takes… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
Who is so brave and so noble that they could hurl themselves at infinity without any question, with complete trust and complete… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I have a certainty about eternity that is a wonderful thing, and I thank God for giving me that certainty. I do… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
... the body, normally, is never in question: our bodies are beyond question, or perhaps beneath question - they are simply, unquestionably,… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
...it is absurd to try to confine our knowledge and belief to matters which are conclusively established by sound deductive arguments. The… — J. L. Mackie Copy Share Image
Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
“We can never establish with certainty which part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions--love, antipathy, charity, or… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Of course, I don't know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
There is a certain blend of courage, integrity, character and principle which has no satisfactory dictionary name but has been called different… — Louis Adamic Copy Share Image
The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that… — Hans Blix Copy Share Image
“in our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
