A science only advances with certainty, when the plan of inquiry and the object of our researches have been clearly defined; otherwise… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
It matters little what form of prayer we adopt or how many words we use. What matters is the faith which lays… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The only reality I can possibly know is the world as I perceive it at this moment. The only reality you can… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
“We cannot know with certainty if God or Christ exist. The COULD. Then again, there COULD be a giant reptilian bird in… — South Park Copy Share Image
“If we linger in indecision, as does Buridan’s beast, we will not perish. We will simply miss an opportunity to act decisively… — Terryl Givens Copy Share Image
“Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“From the house of unbelief to true religion is a single breath; From the world of doubt to certainty is a single… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can. Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Trump, like that canary in the coalmine, makes clear what elements of fascism are really like. Let's be honest. The racism, the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Yet it would be unfair to the generality of our kind to ascribe to their intellectual and moral weakness the gradual divergence… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty. People love the president because he's certain of his choices as a… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It seemed perfectly possible that, in spite of my certainty of my own genius, I might die of some illness, or perhaps… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
There were certain great principles involved in the organization of this earth, and one was that there might be a place provided… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
If we base our belief systems on the humble assumption that the complexities of the world are ontologically beyond our understanding, then… — Moby Copy Share Image
All of us carry around countless bags of dusty old knickknacks dated from childhood: collected resentments, long list of wounds of greater… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
It seems to me that self confidence and the ability to stand one's ground are essential if we want to succeed in… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I did not imitate the skeptics who doubt only for doubting's sake, and pretend to be always undecided; on the contrary, my… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
The only certainty we have is that those who are certain of a way to arrive at worldly salvation, are committed enough… — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
The infinite reservoir of future grace is flowing back through the present into the ever-growing pool of past grace. The inexhaustible reservoir… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The opposite of certainty in life is called freedom. If you want to be free, you must be willing to advance your… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
The certainty that she would find what it was she sought just slipped away, until one night she knew there was nothing,… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
The world now has a new kind of hero, one who listens more than speaks, who preaches in riddles not in certainties,… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“...the absence of certainty does not mean that one interpretation is as valid as any other. Probabilities and plausibilities matter; and when… — Mary Lefkowitz Copy Share Image
We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“In this world, what is here is not necessarily here, and what is now may not really be now: place and time… — Amir Aczel Copy Share Image
[An artist] will sooner and with more certainty, establish the character of skeletons, than the most learned anatomist, whose eye has not… — Rembrandt Peale Copy Share Image
To find the length of an object, we have to perform certain physical operations. The concept of length is therefore fixed when… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
The disappointed man turns his thoughts toward a state of existence where his wiser desires may be fixed with the certainty of… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
“The future isn’t written in the stars. There are no guarantees. So claim your adulthood. Be intentional. Get to work. Pick your… — Meg Jay Copy Share Image
Even as a teenager, I felt that for whatever reason that we were living very close to the end of human history.… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the… — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
I would say that without any doubt he's the killer - the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral… — Henry Wade Copy Share Image
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I know with certainty, that [an honest man] is not to put his hand into the fire, and hold it there, till… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Christian hypocrites who pretend to hate life and love death. He may talk about the soul-what he is after is the girl… — Georg Ebers Copy Share Image