There is always a pleasure in unravelling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty. — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Certainty sees things in restrictive, protective, aggressive ways, and thus isn't seeing at all. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient. — Colin Maclaurin Copy Share Image
We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“Certainty is one of the weakest positions in life. Curiosity is one of the most powerful. Certainty prohibits learning, curiosity fuels change.” — Liz Wiseman Copy Share Image
Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success.… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion. — Leonardo da Vinci 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
I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be… — John Burdett 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
I have always felt that the moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four… — Monica Baldwin Copy Share Image
The Principle of Uncertainty fixed once for all the realisation that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Our children take their flight into the future with our thrust and with our aim. And even as we anxiously watch that… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
The image of the presence, whatever it was, waiting there for him to go -this image had not yet been so concrete… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself. — Morarji Desai Copy Share Image
“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me want to dream.” — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up. — David Foster Copy Share Image
In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
“Death is, perhaps, the only certainty in life that still manages to catch us off guard. And” — Dee Oliver Copy Share Image
Certainty is the enemy of mankind. If you're certain about everything, you have the Inquisition, you have Nazis and you have -… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute… — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
When two people meet, as long as there is any form of rapport maintained, the person with the most certainty will eventually… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
How incredibly far our lives drift from where we knew with all certainty they would go. How little today resembles what yesterday… — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
