“we give up our freedoms and responsibilities in exchange for the certainty that comes from being told what to do” — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The best kind of men have a certainty in themselves that isn't done in when countered by a certainty in their women,… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
While denial leads to certainty, it is only the certainty of death. This is true for individuals and also for civilizations. — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
“Because these calculations generate precise numbers for an uncertain risk, they produce an illusory certainty.” — Gerd Gigerenzer Copy Share Image
“There is no certainty or predictability. There is no fate. There is a choice. My choice and yours, in each moment that… — Maria Alyokhina Copy Share Image
I've always been envious of certainty, of people who always seemed to have a plan for their lives. — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and… — James Heckman Copy Share Image
His quiet certainty made the ground beneath my feet feel solid. Like someday everything might actually be okay. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
There are many paths to enlightenment. Some of us who have expanded to a degree of illumination have thereafter preached the dogmatic… — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
EPA takes its Clean Air Act responsibilities seriously and is committed to providing certainty to state and industry partners. We will not… — Andrew R. Wheeler Copy Share Image
Biblical hope is not wishful thinking or an optimistic outlook; rather, it is a confident expectation based on the certainty of God's… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Many fear this side of the door. We crave stability and certainty, so we keep both feet rooted in what we know,… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
Optimism is a wish without warrant; Christian hope is a certainty, guaranteed by God himself. Optimism reflects ignorance as to whether good… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
I have always felt that the moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four… — Monica Baldwin Copy Share Image
The Principle of Uncertainty fixed once for all the realisation that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
What is it that sometimes speaks in the soul so calmly, so clearly, that its earthly time is short? Is it the… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly certain than others — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand. — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When you've been living in hope for a long time as I have, suddenly you realize that certainty is far more desirable… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition; adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“There was something so comforting in the certainty that someone knew about your biggest flaws and was still willing to stick around.” — R.K. Lilley Copy Share Image
The things of another world being distant, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconvenience, we must frequently revolve their certainty… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
“What is true today may not be true ten years from now; there is more truth, more certainty in the inquiry "What… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
There was the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
I, retired in prayer, will always be with you, and together we will move ahead with the Lord in certainty. The Lord… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty and both - precision and certainty are impossible to attain. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
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