“The rich world of his ancestors set the standards for Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s own life. It gave him a certainty of judgment and… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
I know the exact date that I began writing Twilight, because it was also the first day of swim lessons for my… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species… — David Hume Copy Share Image
'I beseech ye . . . , think that ye may be mistaken.' I should like to have that written over the… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The thing is, there is no certainty in this life - in one second your entire world could shift. I'm not saying… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“In fact, certainty exists in very different modes. The kind of certainty afforded by a verification that has passed through doubt is… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
“Roosevelt loved the subtleties of human relations...He was sensitive to nuances in a way that Harry Truman never was and never would… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The big picture is: the main thing you should be concerned about in the future are incremental returns on capital going forward.… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Certain miracles that I beheld there have haunted my memory ever since: a gray April morning of sirocco, when the almond blossoms,… — Harrison Gray Otis Dwight Copy Share Image
I like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to… — Steven Galloway Copy Share Image
“She was after all the kind of woman who would make a man easily uproot his life, the kind who, because she… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Think about what it feels like when you interact with someone who makes you notice what's good about yourself (raising your status),… — David Rock Copy Share Image
There is a certain hidden mediocrity in those who are stationed above us in life, an ability to take liberties in their… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Setting regulatory certainty is very important for bitcoin. I'm opposed to the regulations, but the bitcoin businesses need to know the rules… — Roger Ver Copy Share Image
If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“whatever you are feeling right now, there is a mathematical certainty that someone is feeling that exact thing. This is not to… — Neil Hilborn Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
O Mother of God! If I place my confidence in thee, I shall be saved; if I am under thy protection, I… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
What unnerves so many liberals about talk radio? Simple: It's the unapologetic nature of the conversation, the unwavering sense of certainty. Where's… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
“So called ‘success’ is the marriage of your mindset, skill-set and resourcefulness in any given context. But there are few guarantees and… — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
“...the absence of certainty does not mean that one interpretation is as valid as any other. Probabilities and plausibilities matter; and when… — Mary Lefkowitz Copy Share Image
The world now has a new kind of hero, one who listens more than speaks, who preaches in riddles not in certainties,… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
[An artist] will sooner and with more certainty, establish the character of skeletons, than the most learned anatomist, whose eye has not… — Rembrandt Peale Copy Share Image
“In this world, what is here is not necessarily here, and what is now may not really be now: place and time… — Amir Aczel Copy Share Image
“The future isn’t written in the stars. There are no guarantees. So claim your adulthood. Be intentional. Get to work. Pick your… — Meg Jay Copy Share Image
The disappointed man turns his thoughts toward a state of existence where his wiser desires may be fixed with the certainty of… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the… — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
Even as a teenager, I felt that for whatever reason that we were living very close to the end of human history.… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image