To find the length of an object, we have to perform certain physical operations. The concept of length is therefore fixed when… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I would say that without any doubt he's the killer - the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral… — Henry Wade Copy Share Image
I know with certainty, that [an honest man] is not to put his hand into the fire, and hold it there, till… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Christian hypocrites who pretend to hate life and love death. He may talk about the soul-what he is after is the girl… — Georg Ebers Copy Share Image
I remembered standing in the middle of the street in front of The Crooked Bookshelf, filled with the certainty of a future.… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
To tell you the truth, the older I get, the less I know. I keep meeting people, both older and younger, who… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pour the bulk of your time into action, not deciding. The state of indecision is a major time waster. Don't spend more… — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
This is the first step toward understanding the process of real, lasting change: simply knowing with certainty that you can do whatever… — Bo Lozoff Copy Share Image
There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
“When I say that a thing is true, I mean that I cannot help believing it… But ... I do not venture… — Philip Meyer Copy Share Image
For the first time in living memory, the whole class of graduates faces a future of crushing debt, and a high probability,… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But… — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image
Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that… — Hans Blix Copy Share Image
The only reality I can possibly know is the world as I perceive it at this moment. The only reality you can… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
It matters little what form of prayer we adopt or how many words we use. What matters is the faith which lays… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“We cannot know with certainty if God or Christ exist. The COULD. Then again, there COULD be a giant reptilian bird in… — South Park 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… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
A science only advances with certainty, when the plan of inquiry and the object of our researches have been clearly defined; otherwise… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
“From the house of unbelief to true religion is a single breath; From the world of doubt to certainty is a single… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
“Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“If we linger in indecision, as does Buridan’s beast, we will not perish. We will simply miss an opportunity to act decisively… — Terryl Givens Copy Share Image
All of us carry around countless bags of dusty old knickknacks dated from childhood: collected resentments, long list of wounds of greater… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
If we base our belief systems on the humble assumption that the complexities of the world are ontologically beyond our understanding, then… — Moby Copy Share Image
Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can. Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
I did not imitate the skeptics who doubt only for doubting's sake, and pretend to be always undecided; on the contrary, my… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
It seems to me that self confidence and the ability to stand one's ground are essential if we want to succeed in… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The only certainty we have is that those who are certain of a way to arrive at worldly salvation, are committed enough… — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
The certainty that she would find what it was she sought just slipped away, until one night she knew there was nothing,… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
The infinite reservoir of future grace is flowing back through the present into the ever-growing pool of past grace. The inexhaustible reservoir… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The opposite of certainty in life is called freedom. If you want to be free, you must be willing to advance your… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep… — William James Copy Share Image
To search means, first, I need Being, Truth; second, I do not know where to find it; and third, an action takes… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
Who is so brave and so noble that they could hurl themselves at infinity without any question, with complete trust and complete… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image