Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Maybe that's what is means to be human . . . forever questioning our certainties. — Kay Hooper Copy Share Image
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth! — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because its safe or certain. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
There is always a pleasure in unravelling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty. — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise. — Maya Angelou 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
“Certainty is one of the weakest positions in life. Curiosity is one of the most powerful. Certainty prohibits learning, curiosity fuels change.” — Liz Wiseman Copy Share Image
Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress. — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the… — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
“Instead of striving for certainty, we should be in constant search of doubt: doubt about our own beliefs, doubt about our own… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
There is more to creative mastership than the surface of satisfaction and political certainty. The music of Joe Fonda is part of… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
“Establishing social certainty helps you build trust, develop rapport, and strengthen your connection. However, the right questions might lead you to find… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
This was my voice, but perfectly wise, calm and compassionate. This was what my voice would sound like if I’d only ever… — Elizabeth Gilbert 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
If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term… — Sam Graves Copy Share Image
“Once you have mathematical certainty there is nothing left to do or to understand. There will be nothing left but to bottle… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer. How do I… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
Man's quest for knowledge is an expanding series whose limit is infinity, but philosophy seeks to attain that limit at one blow,… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is a certainty that Keegan would not have agreed to return unless Mike Ashley had committed to sanctioning a mammoth spending… — Pete Gill Copy Share Image
Toleration, holding that every other man has the same right to his opinion and faith that we have to ours; and liberality,… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
“The difference between theism and new atheist science is the difference between mystery and certainty. Certainty is a relic, an atavism, a… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Perseverance is more than endurance." It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature. — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A lot of people hear me attacking their certainty. I don't have any interest in doing that. I'm interested in penetrating the… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
There's something about the lack of certainty with a documentary, which is exhausting if you do three in a row. It's nerve-wracking. — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
“Death is, perhaps, the only certainty in life that still manages to catch us off guard. And” — Dee Oliver Copy Share Image
Certainty is the enemy of mankind. If you're certain about everything, you have the Inquisition, you have Nazis and you have -… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
When two people meet, as long as there is any form of rapport maintained, the person with the most certainty will eventually… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
