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
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
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
What we've established (in San Diego) with my growing family is hard to re-create. It's hard to up and re-create that. I… — Philip Rivers Copy Share Image
“I know with unqualified certainty that I want to die. But I also know with equivalent certainty that I won't do anything… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
OK, so this pack - tax package includes about 50 tax breaks. None of them are new. They were all existing tax… — Susan Davis Copy Share Image
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a pretty thing… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
“As a physician, I was trained to deal with uncertainty as aggressively as I dealt with disease itself. The unknown was the… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
“The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great European war, and regards it with the peculiar… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The beliefs which we have most warrant for have no safeguard to rest on but a standing invitation to the whole world… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“promise you that it’s not. In fact, once you become even reasonably proficient with the Straight Line System, you’ll be able to… — Jordan Belfort Copy Share Image
I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Our culture is becoming more hostile to the gospel. This trend may be more established in Australia than in the USA, but… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in going. Like his predecessor, the… — Philip Rieff Copy Share Image
“While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We all return. It is this certainty that gives meaning to life and it does not make the slightest difference whether or… — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
I'm a big proponent of playing all sports when you're growing up. I think they all help you from a competitiveness standpoint… — Gordon Hayward Copy Share Image
To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
In philosophical terms, the opposite of rationalism is not irrationalism but empiricism, that is, a willingness to form beliefs on the basis… — John Quiggin Copy Share Image
Indecision is fatal. It is better to make a wrong decision than build up a habit of indecision. If you're wallowing in… — Marie Beynon Lyons Ray Copy Share Image
I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“is known as a certainty that there exists an unimaginably powerful creator and sustainer of reality, and of you in particular. This… — Dean Radin Copy Share Image
Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets - and have only the rudiments of a system… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
That which is true must always remain true, though the applications may change greatly from generation to generation. It is the absence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are two modes of knowledge: through argument and through experience. Argument brings conclusions and compels us to concede them, but it… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
I speak "with absolute certainty" only so far as my own personal belief is concerned. Those who have not the same warrant… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Through positive thinking and related approaches, we seek the safety and solid ground of certainty, of knowing how the future will turn… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
People who have never run even a modest little business assert with great certainty and indignation that heads of multinational corporations are… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to… — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose everything, to let… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
'Belief' means something that you do not know. You want to assume and bring a certainty to something that you do not… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
