If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
... the body, normally, is never in question: our bodies are beyond question, or perhaps beneath question - they are simply, unquestionably,… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I have a certainty about eternity that is a wonderful thing, and I thank God for giving me that certainty. I do… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
...it is absurd to try to confine our knowledge and belief to matters which are conclusively established by sound deductive arguments. The… — J. L. Mackie Copy Share Image
There is a certain blend of courage, integrity, character and principle which has no satisfactory dictionary name but has been called different… — Louis Adamic Copy Share Image
Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments.… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Here is the point about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Five hundred years before Christ was born, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus told his students that "everything changes except the law of change".… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Let this point therefore stand: that those whom the Holy Spirit has inwardly taught truly rest upon Scripture, and that Scripture itself… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Over the course of the last decade, I have become vividly aware of a literally lethal challenge from the sort of people… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“As William Bouwsma pointed out, the late medieval and early Renaissance crises of representation did not stall out at their skepticism of… — Lori Branch Copy Share Image
“We can never establish with certainty which part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions--love, antipathy, charity, or… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Of course, I don't know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
All writers--all beings--are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
The Western World has been brainwashed by Aristotle for the last 2,500 years. The unconscious, not quite articulate, belief of most Occidentals… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
The only result my father got for his money was the certainty that his son had laid faultlessly the foundation of a… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
As soon as one point alone is removed from the sphere of dogmatic certainty, the discussion will not simply result in a… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Know for a certainty that if men understood how terrible is even one solitary sin, they would rather be cast into a… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
You can't deny that there's something between us." "No. There is. When I saw you today--I didn't know I'd been waiting for… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
This surpassed the fear of death. Death would be a mercy if it would make the feeling stop, the uncontrollable panic mingling… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still… — Cameron Mackintosh Copy Share Image
It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent.… — Pat Tiberi Copy Share Image
The emotionally mature individual should completely accept the fact that we live in a world of probability and chance, where there are… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
She thought of what it would be like to grow up without the one certainty that every baby deseved - when I'm… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“Although you might believe that certainty and control over your circumstances brings you pleasure, it is often uncertainty and challenge that actually… — Todd Kashdan Copy Share Image
“You must regard this deviation from your plan as part of the adventure that you sought when you decided to embark on… — Adam Yamey Copy Share Image
Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-person narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly original child whose deadpan certainties… — Katharine Weber Copy Share Image
“The aim of this step is threefold: (1) to recognize and appreciate the unknown and unknowable, (2) to become sensitive to overconfident… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Good applied science in medicine, as in physics, requires a high degree of certainty about the basic facts at hand, and especially… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
