“What can you do with a person who says that he is absolutely uncertain about everything, and that he is absolutely certain… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, no matter how many lifetimes you live. — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
Don't play with someone's feelings, you may win the game but you will surely lose someone. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface. — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Was this normalcy-predictable patterns, the certainty of doing the same thing everyday? Because if so, normalcy was about to make me freak… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
In teaching there can be too much emphasis on certainty and a proper appreciation of uncertainty is to be encouraged. — Dennis Lindley Copy Share Image
“We can never establish with certainty which part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions--love, antipathy, charity, or… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Of course, I don't know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
To search means, first, I need Being, Truth; second, I do not know where to find it; and third, an action takes… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep… — William James Copy Share Image
Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“It appears, from all this, that our eyes are uncertain. Two persons look at the same clock and there is a difference… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Can any man say with certainty that he was happy at a particular moment of time which he remembers as being delightful?… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
She loved Bram in a clear-eyed way she’d never loved her ex-husband, no rose-colored glasses or mindless giddiness, no Cinderella fantasies or… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
“When I was young, I lacked certainty, too,” he says. “I have the certainty, now, of not needing certainty. I have the… — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
As a new mother, I want to give my children the best start in life but millions of children affected with AIDS… — Claudia Schiffer Copy Share Image
The first men who set out for Mars had better make sure they leave everything at home in apple-pie order. They won't… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It isn't the light you want to recover, it’s the certainty that there is only darkness” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
“We are between the wild thoat of certainty and the mad zitidar of fact - we can escape neither.” — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“There's only one certainty in life: how you come into the world. Where you go from there is up to you.” — Katie Kacvinsky Copy Share Image
“A certain way to have financial security in life is not enough savings, but enough ability.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Certainty is the culprit. The spiritual person knows uncertainty—a state of mind unknown to the religious fanatic.” — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“The certainty about the uncertain (in view to life) is that it will remain uncertain till the time its certain.” — Mayank Sharma Copy Share Image
If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
That was my gift . . . having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Death is the only thing we can know with any certainty. And as such, it must be the compass by which we… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
Real men DON'T assume everything's ok with their woman, they communicate with her making 100% sure everything's ok. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
