What is it that sometimes speaks in the soul so calmly, so clearly, that its earthly time is short? Is it the… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Mystery is an inescapable ingredient of mathematics. Mathematics is full of unanswered questions, which far outnumber known theorems and results. It's the… — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
What I envy most about you and everyone else heading back to school is the certainty of it all. You’ve got a… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
It was one thing, after all, to know his feelings for Amanda hadn't changed; it was another thing entirely to face the… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
There are normal times when it is wholly admirable to be steadfast, resolute, unconflicted, and therefore when integrity is unmistakenly a virtue.… — Simon Blackburn 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
“Certainty is as it were a tone of voice in which one declares how things are, but one does not infer from… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
These principles laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The good gardener knows with absolute certainty that if he does his part, if he gives the labour, the love, and every… — Gertrude Jekyll Copy Share Image
In philosophical terms, the opposite of rationalism is not irrationalism but empiricism, that is, a willingness to form beliefs on the basis… — John Quiggin Copy Share Image
The abuse of the veto power has become so predictable that frequently resolutions are not even tabled because of the certainty of… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
“What’s stopping you from moving forward? The need to be certain. Certainty is prison. Break free and you’ll be free.” — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
There's no certainty to the next couple of years, but people are paying attention now. And I want to put out a… — Andrew McMahon Copy Share Image
Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming… — Alan Bullock Copy Share Image
The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
