“No one can know a false thing, one can only believe it with certainty until it is contradicted. (Page 7)” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but… — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
American businesses are looking for are certainty and executive orders don't really get them that. — Eric Bolling Copy Share Image
I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Knowledge breeds doubt, not certainty, And the more we know the more uncertain we become. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Dialogue starts with the willingness to challenge our own thinking, to recognize that any certainty we have is, at best, a hypothesis… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
“In a race between danger and indecision, the difference between life and death comes down to confidence. Faith in our abilities, certainty… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
Few Christians understand the concept of eternal rewards, even thought the Lord dedicated a great deal of His precious time on earth… — Larry Burkett Copy Share Image
I think I developed a culture of healthy skepticism of claims of certainty on any side of the aisle. A sort of… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
“It is only charlatans who are certain. We know nothing of first principles. It is truly extravagant to define God, angels, and… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal…… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Sudden conviction races through me, almost terrifying in its total certainty. I can't give him up. He's the other part of me.… — Sophie Jordan Copy Share Image
And when I wake up it's wonderful, like I've been carried quietly onto a calm, peaceful shore, and the dream, and its… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Yet it would be unfair to the generality of our kind to ascribe to their intellectual and moral weakness the gradual divergence… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Fanaticism can often be a normalized phenomenon, and the unwritten recipe suggests that it starts and ends with absolute certainty. If you… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Could I have made mistakes? One does not build cities if one is guided by doubt. But can one govern in absolute… — Andrew Ryan Copy Share Image
Those of us who work in this field see a developing potential for nearly a total control of human emotional status, mental… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They certainty of those with whom we disagree (...) never looks justified to us, and frequently looks odious. As often as not,… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Know with certainty that there is a God, and that there exists a world beyond this one - the world of souls. — Ostad Elahi Copy Share Image
“Often, the journey to greatness begins the moment our preferences for comfort and certainty are overruled by a greater purpose that requires… — Brendon Burchard Copy Share Image
In my 40-plus years as a venture capitalist, I have come to appreciate the certainty a healthy economy provides for businesses both… — Alan Patricof Copy Share Image
I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. What certainty had he that a single human creature now living… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If someone loves you to the depths of their heart, they will never think twice about whether they want you or not. — Sophie Parkin Copy Share Image
If I've learned anything, it's really just to stop trying to find answers and certainties. — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its… — Arnold Gingrich Copy Share Image
History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all? — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down. — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image