Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees,… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessary condition for knowledge.” — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
“I seem always to enjoy things more intensely because of the certainty they will not last.” — W.L. Rusho Copy Share Image
The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents. — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
You must define it before you can pursue it. Know what you want, figure out how you will get it and go… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The new education must consist essentially in this, that it completely destroys freedom of will in the soil which it undertakes to… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
God's heart calls to our hearts, inviting us to come out of ourselves, to forsake our human certainties, to trust in him… — Pope Benedict XVI 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
OK, so this pack - tax package includes about 50 tax breaks. None of them are new. They were all existing tax… — Susan Davis Copy Share Image
What we've established (in San Diego) with my growing family is hard to re-create. It's hard to up and re-create that. I… — Philip Rivers Copy Share Image
“I know with unqualified certainty that I want to die. But I also know with equivalent certainty that I won't do anything… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
People are saying that they want be convinced [about global warming], perfectly. They want to know the climate science projections with 100… — Gordon R. Sullivan Copy Share Image
The God who inspired the Bible is the same God who made the universe, Earth, and all life. This God is the… — Hugh Ross 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
Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“when the great intolerance of faith was lost, the secular robe of office had to supplant the sacred one, and society had… — Hermann Broch 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
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
One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
“Only those could maintain certainty who were themselves of great permanence – like the stars, the mountains and the sea.” — Sten Nadolny Copy Share Image
“Certainty in faith and doubt in reason removed the means by which to reach understandings or agreements on the basis of what… — Robert Reilly Copy Share Image
To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Sometimes, the stars line up, the gods smile, and love gets a fighting chance. Just a chance. That's all it can really… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Educators must resist the quest for certainty. If there were certainty there would be no scientific advancement. So it is with morals… — John Goodlad Copy Share Image
The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress. — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature. — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
There's something about the lack of certainty with a documentary, which is exhausting if you do three in a row. It's nerve-wracking. — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
A lot of people hear me attacking their certainty. I don't have any interest in doing that. I'm interested in penetrating the… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
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