Finnick!" Something between a shriek and a cry of joy. A lovely if somewhat bedraggled young woman--dark tangled hair, sea green eyes--runs… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
...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
The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the… — Vicente del Bosque Copy Share Image
Economic life should be definancialised. We should learn not to use markets as storehouses of value: they do not harbour the certainties… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
Our certainty that angels right now witness how we are walking through life should mightily influence the decisions we make. God is… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Now suppose both death and hell were utterly defeated. Suppose the fight was fixed. Suppose God took you on a crystal ball… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
I am about to die. It is September 11, and every cell in my body is acutely aware of my looming demise.… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
You sleep expecting to wake up in the morning right? Well don't. You may not wake up. There is no certainty. This… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Faith is not a question of basking in the certainty that there is a God and that God is taking care of… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
The significant contribution of empiricism was not the eradication of certainty, but the eradication of infallibility as a criterion of certainty. And… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
The rocket that goes up next March will not only lift a payload, it will launch what I believe will ultimately be… — Bill Richardson Copy Share Image
Help me lord to accept that I cant possibly know everything, and to rest secure in the certainty that you have revealed… — Bible Copy Share Image
Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
