-the soul's certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It is only charlatans who are certain. We know nothing of first principles. It is truly extravagant to define God, angels, and… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal…… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“In a race between danger and indecision, the difference between life and death comes down to confidence. Faith in our abilities, certainty… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
Few Christians understand the concept of eternal rewards, even thought the Lord dedicated a great deal of His precious time on earth… — Larry Burkett Copy Share Image
I think I developed a culture of healthy skepticism of claims of certainty on any side of the aisle. A sort of… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
To the last we have learned nothing. In all of us, deep down, there seems to be something granite and unteachable. No… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There was this certainty inside me, and it destroyed everything else. The moment Ferdinand touched me, I knew that I was going… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When he thought of her, it rather amazed him, that he had let that girl with her violin go. Now, of course,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
True. The one certainty about riding, Braygan, is that - at some time - you will fall off. It is a fact.… — David Gemmell 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
Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Finnick!" Something between a shriek and a cry of joy. A lovely if somewhat bedraggled young woman--dark tangled hair, sea green eyes--runs… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The scientist has to take 95 per cent of his subject on trust. He has to because he can't possibly do all… — Christopher Zeeman Copy Share Image
The risk of failure is a very personal thing. One of the quotes I like, I think this came from the famous… — Les Wexner Copy Share Image
Politics have always covered two distinct kinds of problems: problems of administrative routine, and those that may be called 'questions of the… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the… — John McCain Copy Share Image
If you look around the world and I can tell you right now that the majority of the planet is focused on… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
It's true that a dangerous combination of certainty and ignorance often shows up around sex and consent on campus. People on all… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
To achieve policy stability and certainty, we need to establish a meaningful price on carbon and cut the billions of dollars spent… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
The is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“There is no possibility I have made a mistake. Everything that happens as a result of my actions is one of calculation… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
And it would be a spare life he would be certain to lead as a schoolteacher in some urban location. But he… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
The frog is almost five hundred million years old. Could you really say with much certainty that America, with all its strength… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
That tide of insecurity would come in and out over the years, sometimes stranding me for a while but occasionally lifting me… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Clearly it is not reason that has failed. What has failed-as it has always failed-is the attempt to achieve certainty, to reach… — Allen Wheelis Copy Share Image
It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Most people are great at absorbing information. Guerrilla marketing is needed because it gives small businesses a delightfully unfair advantage: certainty in… — Jay Conrad Levinson Copy Share Image
We must realize that the Reformation world view leads in the direction of government freedom. But the humanist world view with inevitable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reason that ego and love are not compatible comes down to this: you cannot take your ego into the unknown, where… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I confess that I have not cleared a path through all seven hundred pages, I confess to having examined only bits and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Sudden conviction races through me, almost terrifying in its total certainty. I can't give him up. He's the other part of me.… — Sophie Jordan Copy Share Image
And when I wake up it's wonderful, like I've been carried quietly onto a calm, peaceful shore, and the dream, and its… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
There are many levels of life which we cannot see and know, yet which certainly exist. There is a larger world, vast… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
