Statistics were magic like this: they could tell you with near-certainty that a thing would occur, without a hint of when or… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
In the [John F.] Kennedy case, I believe the absence of a conspiracy can be proved to a virtual certainty. — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
Our hope is a certainty based on the truths that God is in complete control of our universe and that He loves… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“One cannot escape from the world with greater certainty than through art, and one cannot relate to it with greater certainty than… — Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Copy Share Image
“Curiosity is a worthwhile virtue than certainty. While the former leads to grow, the latter muzzles your growth and results in stagnation...” — Assegid Habtewold Copy Share Image
The universe only gives you what you can handle, so trust that whatever is happening to you is exactly what you need.… — Patricia Velasquez Copy Share Image
And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
But 'the physical level of rigor' is higher on certainty than the logical one, since reproducible experiments are more reliable than anybody's,… — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Copy Share Image
There has to be certainty and there has to be clarity. There can't be ambiguity, .. This has to be certain, clear… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Can you predict the future with absolute certainty? Your answer must be no. You have two options: You can either decide to… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
“If you telescope out 10 years and know with 100% certainty that it is a path of disappointment and regret, and if… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later… — C Williams Copy Share Image
The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I was gay, there’d be no closet. You’d never see the closet I came out of. Why? I would have burned… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Christmas is ... a time to mark our progress through this earthly journey. Every December we can look back and marvel at… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
Your body can dictate your mind, so when I walk to a fight a lot of times I'm scared, I'm scared to… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
While we were never able to provide 100 percent certainty regarding the disposition of Iraq's proscribed weaponry, we did ascertain a 90-95… — Scott Ritter Copy Share Image
“Like the body craves oxygen, the mind is desperate for certainty. It believes that without a safe foothold on reality, it will… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
Historians constantly rewrite history, reinterpreting (reorganizing) the records of the past. So, too, when the brain's coherent responses become part of a… — Israel Rosenfield Copy Share Image
In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
We have to be mindful that there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which… — Cofer Black Copy Share Image
“What’s stopping you from moving forward? The need to be certain. Certainty is prison. Break free and you’ll be free.” — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
“f anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We want to have certainties and no doubts- results and no experiments- without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity. — Shekhar Kapur Copy Share Image
Our discussions of the economy may sometimes ring in the ears of the public with more certainty than is appropriate. — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force, — Helmuth von Moltke the Elder Copy Share Image
The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life. — Edgar Morin Copy Share Image
When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic. — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break.… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image