“Nobody knows anything… Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
Study nothing except in the knowledge that you already knew it. Worship nothing except in adoration of your true self. And fear… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“THE BIG THREE “All you need are these: certainty of judgment in the present moment; action for the common good in the… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Theoretically, I grant you, there is no possibility of error in necessary reasoning. But to speak thus "theoretically," is to uselanguage in… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
“Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life– gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life. To be certain of God… — oswald chambers Copy Share Image
I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Let the Kingdom be always before you, and believe with certainty and consistency the things that are yet unseen. Let nothing that… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Organisms [...] are directed and limited by their past. They must remain imperfect in their form and function, and to that extent… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“Man … has the wish not to die. This wish is originally identical with the instinct of self-preservation. … Subsequently, … this… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
"What is the meaning of life?" This question has no answer except in the history of how it came to be asked.… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Since I found that one could make a case shadow from a three-dimensional thing, any object whatsoever - just as the projecting… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness.… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I don't really think I am interested in the macabre, but I am curious about death. That's normal... The only certainty in… — Andres Serrano Copy Share Image
In order to improve the condition of mankind all men must be given the certainty of security through the exchange of safeguards,… — Antoine Pinay Copy Share Image
“All certainty that comes after the 'original sin' of dismantling the matter-of-fact world full of routine and short of reflection must be… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
If we are to reach certainty and true autonomy of realization, we need to be willing to be heretics. What's more, we… — A. H. Almaas Copy Share Image
Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions [than we can ever know]. But with regard to those few which the human… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Almost all religions provide opportunities for human beings to convince themselves of their own righteousness, to speak in the name of God,… — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
Our certainty that angels right now witness how we are walking through life should mightily influence the decisions we make. God is… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Time again for the waltz of smiles. Amazing how you sometimes make resolutions, tell yourself everything will be a certain way from… — David Foenkinos Copy Share Image
Proof that a given condition always precedes or accompanies a phenomenon does not warrant concluding with certainty that a given condition is… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The search for the lessons of the new science is still in progress, really in its infancy. In this realm, three is… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
Peoples of the entire world need to hear these words. Their conscience needs to grow in the certainty that Someone exists who… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I'm a member of that half of the human race which is inclined to divide the human race into two kinds of… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing interest ceases also… But… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
Heaven grants the human being who has learned to live alone a deep measure of such rewards that verily would one hesitate… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
Warped with satisfactions and terrors, woofed with too many ambiguities and too few certainties, life can be lived best not when we… — Rosalie Maggio Copy Share Image
Investors don't like uncertainty. The market is telling us that they need certainty, they need to see where the economy is heading.… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the back of my brain there exists this certainty: The body is no more than a costume, and can be… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Maybe under all that guilt and certainty that he couldn't love again, he still wanted me. I would have liked to have… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“It’s not about lighting up every shadow or chasing certainty. Rather, it’s learning to trust the stillness where nothing is visible—because that’s… — Monica Laura Rapeanu Copy Share Image
![“Organisms [...] are directed and limited by their past. They must remain imperfect in their form and function, and to that extent unpredictable since they are not optimal machines. We cannot know their future with certainty, if only because a myriad of quirky functional shifts lie within the…” quote by Stephen Jay Gould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92a/stephen-jay-gould-885_adapted_organisms-are-directed-and-limited-by-th_660291.jpg)
![“Man … has the wish not to die. This wish is originally identical with the instinct of self-preservation. … Subsequently, … this primary negative wish becomes the positive wish for a life, and a better life, after death. … [T]his wish involves the further wish for the certainty of its fulfilment…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59d/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_better-life_man-has-the-wish-not-to-die-this-wish-is_2761847.png)
![“The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions [than we can ever know]. But with regard to those few which the human intellect does understand, I believe that its knowledge equals the Divine in objective certainty.” quote by Galileo Galilei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cbb/galileo-galilei-2377_believe_the-divine-intellect-indeed-knows-infini_1728740.jpg)
