So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“The certainty of mathematics depends on its complete abstract generality.” — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Let's make sure that there is certainty during uncertain times in our economy. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
What makes you so certain?" "But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?" "Yes!" "Then you… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
“A feeling of subjective certainty does not guarantee irrefutable certainty. It is not the certainty, but the truth in the certainty that… — G.C. Berkouwer Copy Share Image
An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
As a former Bank of England economist, I know how important our institutions are in providing the stability and certainty that strong,… — Rachel Reeves Copy Share Image
Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
... moral certainty is certainty which is sufficient to regulate our behaviour, or which measures up to the certainty we have on… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labors to find within itself the means of happiness,… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
We are talking about capital-intensive enterprises, so market certainty is the key. Investors and entrepreneurs have to know that there will be… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
The last word always belongs to the audience. ... Yes, that is a most powerful feeling. One that is worth savouring on… — Ruth Cracknell Copy Share Image
The sun meets not the springing bud that stretches towards him with half the certainty that God, the source of all good,… — William Law Copy Share Image
There is certainty in a ring. The non-ending, the non-beginning. The ongoing. The way it holds on to you not because it's… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Another thing very injurious to the child is the tying and cutting of the navel string too soon, which should always be… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
Revolt in whatever way we want, with the spontaneity of the London rioters, with the certainty and willingness to die of religious… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound; and that supremely real and rational… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To begin with clear and self-evident principles, to advance by timorous and sure steps, to review frequently our conclusions, and examine accurately… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I sat there beside him till morning - and as I watched his face in the starlight, then the first ray of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I was the subject of an experiment in love. I lived my life under her gaze, undergoing certain trials for her so… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Leadership used to be about creating certainty. Now it is about leading uncertainty — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire. — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
“The possibility of something is better than the certainty of nothing.” — Sandor L.S.G. Marai Copy Share Image
Action based on hope just felt better than the paralysis of certainty. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
