Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Overcoming one of my limiting beliefs, "girls are not as strong as men, therefore we cannot attempt the same physical challenges." I… — Lynsey Dyer Copy Share Image
The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love must not entreat, nor demand. Love must have the power to find its own way to certainty. Then it ceases merely… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
This view [of the infinite], which I consider to be the sole correct one, is held by only a few. While possibly… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
We have to deal with this new type of threat in a way we haven’t yet defined. . . . With a… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
“In order for a god to be all-knowing, he must know even the fact of his own omniscience. But can he do… — Roland Puccetti Copy Share Image
It is way less certain to be a wonderful business in the future. The threat is alternative mediums of information. Every newspaper… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Delacroix, Wagner, Baudelaire - all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of… — Pierre Simon de Laplace Copy Share Image
It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of… — Colin Greenwood Copy Share Image
The term ignorant is indeed perhaps an overstatement, implying as it does that something is known somewhere, whereas in reality we are… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“Gradually I began to understand that it does not matter very much what problem, whether big or small, is tormenting us; the… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The propositions of mathematics have, therefore, the same unquestionable certainty which is typical of such propositions as "All bachelors are unmarried," but… — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Self-development is the only thing that keeps a person from burning out. We all have many needs - the need for certainty,… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Place 5 percent to 10 percent of your total assets in gold bullion and selected gold and silver coins. No one knows… — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that… — Polykarp Kusch Copy Share Image
What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love you," he said. "You're more dear to my heart than I ever knew anyone else can be. And I've made… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
The man who saves time by galloping loses it by missing his way; the shepherd who hurries his flock to get them… — Ramsay MacDonald Copy Share Image
The new education must consist essentially in this, that it completely destroys freedom of will in the soil which it undertakes to… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
God's heart calls to our hearts, inviting us to come out of ourselves, to forsake our human certainties, to trust in him… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“How can he not share his newfound joy with his fellow man? And it is joy. There’s a pure kind of joy… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Udinaas had known many for whom certainty was a god, the only god, no matter the cast of its features. And he… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
The point here is ... to be just a little less arrogant. To have just a little critical awareness about myself and… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Turn yourself inside out. Live with absolute certainty that you have the power to create anything that you desire-anything!-because the power you… — Sonia Copy Share Image
I'm through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me… If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
For me the first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
![“This view [of the infinite], which I consider to be the sole correct one, is held by only a few. While possibly I am the very first in history to take this position so explicitly, with all of its logical consequences, I know for sure that I shall not be the last!” quote by Georg Cantor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb9/georg-cantor-20252_certainty_this-view-of-the-infinite-which-i-consid_2909374.jpg)
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