The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Were we able to extract from any man a complete answer to the question, "What comes into your mind when you think… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Of course there has to be an end,’ she said. ‘Of course. For that is what everyone has faced since the world… — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
A vital part of philosophizing is learning to trust one's own intuitivist intelligence, getting one's center of gravity back between one's feet.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Nothing happens carelessly. We’re not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Yet it is unassailably true that so long as we lack omniscience and do not know all of the future, all our… — Morris F. Cohen Copy Share Image
You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The court was unable to rule on all circumstances in which nuclear weapons might be used, and it said in view of… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind. Difficult or easy, the Buddha said… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And when I hear it said that God is good and He will pardon us, and then see that men cease not… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
I'm not against religion in the sense that I feel I can't tolerate it, but I think written into the rubric of… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the assurance of a happy future, we are “crying for the moon.”… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Toleration, holding that every other man has the same right to his opinion and faith that we have to ours; and liberality,… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
For more than three months, I had been president and primary owner of Spellman Investigations, and I can say with complete certainty… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we… — Moby Copy Share Image
The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
“we cannot predict with certainty the pattern of the war for which we prepare ourselves. We cannot, with reasonable certainty, forecast the… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides.… — Tony Schwartz Copy Share Image
The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change… — George Boole Copy Share Image
He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Without question it may be said of Vancouver that her position, geographically, is Imperial to a degree, that her possibilities are enormous,… — Homer Copy Share Image
Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman, Simone Weil said, seeing herself in the mirror, knows "This is I." An ugly woman knows with equal certainty,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She'd always known he loved her, it had been the one certainty above all others that had never changed, but she had… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness. But the strongest argument against Christianity is also Christians-when… — Joseph C. Aldrich Copy Share Image
It takes twenty or so years before a mother can know with any certainty how effective her theories have been--and even then… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
“But was it worth anything? That's the hopelessness of it. The openness of it. The part of it I can never understand.… — Katherine Ewell Copy Share Image
My opinion of mankind is founded upon the mournful fact that, so far as I can see, they find within themselves the… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
But no one can predict of a certainty what will happen. And none of it will change how I intend to spend… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
My only complaint with 'Dickie' Bird is that he requires a degree of certainty that is almost neurotic; like the man who… — Mike Brearley Copy Share Image
