How incredibly far our lives drift from where we knew with all certainty they would go. How little today resembles what yesterday… — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute… — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success.… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me want to dream.” — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
There are times, they occur with increasing frequency nowadays, when I seem to know nothing, when everything I know seems to have… — John Banville Copy Share Image
He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Today the major reason for our interest in Flatland is that for the first time we can achieve some of the dreams… — Thomas Banchoff Copy Share Image
“In all his forty-eight years upon this earth, Barry Flynn was certain of only two things: one; death trumped life, and two;… — La la la Copy Share Image
Now it is firstly a matter of a clean divorce, because citizens and companies need legal certainty. Can there be a new… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the… — John McCain Copy Share Image
If you look around the world and I can tell you right now that the majority of the planet is focused on… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The last word always belongs to the audience... that blessed connection... that is a most powerful feeling. One that is worth savouring… — Ruth Cracknell Copy Share Image
Fashion is not public opinion, or the result of embodiment of public opinion. It may be that public opinion will condemn the… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
If you are seeking for security, certainty, your eyes will become closed. And you will be less and less surprised and you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To say that I have found the answer to all riddles of the soul would be inaccurate and presumptuous. But in the… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Many of our brothers and sisters are 'baptized, but insufficiently evangelized.' In a number of cases, nations once rich in faith and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
All I'm arguing for really is that we should have a conversation where the best ideas really thrive, where there's no taboo… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
The best antidote against evils of all kinds, against the evil thoughts that haunt the soul, against the needless perplexities which distract… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Copy Share Image
Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up. — David Foster Copy Share Image
In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself. — Morarji Desai Copy Share Image
Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do?… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
One must learn by doing the things; though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without sounding overly pompous about it, I don't really trust certainty in anything, actually. Especially as I get older. Except love. I'm… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
What if the choice isn’t between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the mystery and… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
There are only two things you HAVE TO do in life. You HAVE TO die. You HAVE TO live until you die.… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
