In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
You must define it before you can pursue it. Know what you want, figure out how you will get it and go… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
“I seem always to enjoy things more intensely because of the certainty they will not last.” — W.L. Rusho Copy Share Image
The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents. — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Educators must resist the quest for certainty. If there were certainty there would be no scientific advancement. So it is with morals… — John Goodlad Copy Share Image
One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
To the last we have learned nothing. In all of us, deep down, there seems to be something granite and unteachable. No… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There was this certainty inside me, and it destroyed everything else. The moment Ferdinand touched me, I knew that I was going… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The frog is almost five hundred million years old. Could you really say with much certainty that America, with all its strength… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
It's true that a dangerous combination of certainty and ignorance often shows up around sex and consent on campus. People on all… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
To achieve policy stability and certainty, we need to establish a meaningful price on carbon and cut the billions of dollars spent… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
The is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
“There is no possibility I have made a mistake. Everything that happens as a result of my actions is one of calculation… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“It is debatable whether blind faith is truly faith at all. Faith is the perceptive gray area where scientific facts meet an… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
In this way, we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) “the best part of one's life earning money in order to… — Rolf Potts 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
In short, evolution is as close to being a scientific fact as is possible for any theory, given that science is open… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Death is the one great certainty in life. That’s what my dad used to say. Nothing else is certain. Not love. Not… — Mila Gray Copy Share Image
It seemed perfectly possible that, in spite of my certainty of my own genius, I might die of some illness, or perhaps… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty. People love the president because he's certain of his choices as a… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“Only those could maintain certainty who were themselves of great permanence – like the stars, the mountains and the sea.” — Sten Nadolny Copy Share Image
“Certainty in faith and doubt in reason removed the means by which to reach understandings or agreements on the basis of what… — Robert Reilly Copy Share Image
To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Sometimes, the stars line up, the gods smile, and love gets a fighting chance. Just a chance. That's all it can really… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life. —JOHN STUART MILL” — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion. — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
“Luck is a favorable thing out of an uncertainty. No such thing as luck when everything's certain.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees,… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessary condition for knowledge.” — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Once you get it into your head that somebody is controlling events, you can interpret everything in that light and find no… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Farmers and ranchers need long-term certainty about who they will be able to sell to and under what terms. — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Terrorism is based on two major pillars: One is injustice, and the other is a certainty of attitude, the notion that their… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
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