“Oh no. Maybe I'd gotten too cocky. I was still relatively new to this friend business. Had I screwed up even asking?… — Gwenda Bond Copy Share Image
Faith to me is having absolute certainty that God is in control of my life and that He has my best interests… — Dan Ellis Copy Share Image
When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to… — Terence Stamp Copy Share Image
The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“I'd rather have a uncertainty than certainty. I don't want to know what's going to happen. It can't be good.” — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
The certainty with which a religious belief is held is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity — Donald Morgan Copy Share Image
A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
Every single person who is a member of our party deserves to have certainty. They deserve to know that my attention and… — Annamie Paul Copy Share Image
When we seem to have won or lost in terms of certainties, we must, as literature teachers in the classroom, remember such… — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Copy Share Image
I can UNDERSTAND pessimism, but I don't BELIEVE in it. It's not simply a matter of faith, but of historical EVIDENCE. Not… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Certainty' with respect to successful language learning and use--whether oral, written, or technologically mediated combinations--applies less and less to discrete products and… — Jay Jordan 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
“I breathe deeply, and certainty enters into me like light, like a piece of science, and curious music seems to hum inside… — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
“I don’t know what to do,” he said. “No harm in that. I’ve never known what to do,” said Rincewind with hollow… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
See that unfortunate soldier who is falling hurt to death ("tombe blessé à...", Fr.) on the battlefield; he learns that his folks… — African Spir Copy Share Image
I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? Can we get along? Can we stop making it,… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
To a certain extent all philosophers have been involved in a systematic questioning that undermines confidence and certainty. Philosophy as a whole… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
So the journey is over and I am back again where I started, richer by much experience and poorer by many unexploded… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
“None of us ever know what we are choosing when we choose life. If certainty is so important to you, than you… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed. — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Infinite possibility in all things is a certainty. That pretty much covers theology and philosophy for me. — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty. — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
“Albert knew that one could never be sure about magic, but a lack of certainty is not a good reason to do… — Howard L. Anderson Copy Share Image
As a businessman, you need economic certainty. On the tax policies. You need it on your regulatory policies. — Ted Yoho Copy Share Image
Joy adapts and changes, but it always endures, even as a flicker of light born of our personal certainty that, when everything… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“If! If! If There were so many ifs in life, never any certainty of anything, never any security...” — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely… — H. L. Mencken 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
As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less likely. Science… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion. — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
“It is not always necessary to search for the cause behind everything, because every cause is unfounded. A cause only looks like… — László Krasznahorkai Copy Share Image
Endurance is knowing you're going to die every night. Faith is believing there is a tomorrow. Hope is prolonged torture. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
