Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what… — Ben Whishaw Copy Share Image
If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundation… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
When man thinks in self-conscious submission to the voluntary revelation of the self-sufficient God, he has therewith the only possible ground of… — Cornelius Van Til Copy Share Image
It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The difference between religion and science is the difference between thoughtless certainty and thoughtful doubt. — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
“And it was like I knew , and that certainty planted itself in my belly like a warm secret.” — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in going. Like his predecessor, the… — Philip Rieff 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
“To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We all return. It is this certainty that gives meaning to life and it does not make the slightest difference whether or… — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a pretty thing… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Our culture is becoming more hostile to the gospel. This trend may be more established in Australia than in the USA, but… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The issue here is this, that the Government's argument at the present moment is the argument that now the war is over,… — Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Copy Share Image
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
we cannot break a law of eternal justice, however ignorantly, but throughout the entire universe will there be a jar of discord… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
What visual information does is it creates priorities. You cannot know with certainty what lies behind something else. There are very few… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
If you raise your standards but don't really believe you can meet them, you've already sabotaged yourself. You won't even try; you'll… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Just as 'certainty' and 'truth' can exist independently, so can judgment and intellect.” — Garry Fitchett Copy Share Image
The formula goes belief, then faith, then experience, then certainty, then knowledge, then truth, and the truth will set you free. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Elinor now found the difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event, however certain the mind may be told to consider it,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
I will go on quietly and slowly, but I will go on firmly, and with a certainty of success. — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Discovering, for example, that as witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Even the stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement. — William Boyd Copy Share Image
If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Living by faith isn't living with certainty. It's trusting God in spite of unanswered questions and unresolved doubts. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Doubting things go ill often hurts more Than to be sure they do; for certainties Either are past remedies, or, timely knowing,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Real dialogue is where two or more people become willing to suspend their certainty in each other's presence. — David Bohm Copy Share Image
“Joy is not a denial of painful circumstances, but a certainty that He is at work while we are in them. EL” — Evinda Lepins Copy Share Image