We are symbolic. We are driving to the edge of the city and talking in vague-yet-resolute certainties about our dreams and our… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
“I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Whoever builds his faith exclusively on demonstrative proofs and deductive arguments, builds a faith on which it is impossible to rely. For… — Ibn Arabi Copy Share Image
If you want to attract more investment, foreign investment, more talent, more business, I think having some level of certainty that the… — Louis R. Chenevert Copy Share Image
If we get total certainty, we get … bored out of our minds. So, God, in Her infinite wisdom, gave us a… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
“It's one thing to guess or use trial and error with respect to trivial matters or decisions that can easily be reversed,… — Brooks Jackson Copy Share Image
Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is difficult to… — Johann Bernoulli Copy Share Image
So the journey is over and I am back again where I started, richer by much experience and poorer by many unexploded… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? Can we get along? Can we stop making it,… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
To a certain extent all philosophers have been involved in a systematic questioning that undermines confidence and certainty. Philosophy as a whole… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
See that unfortunate soldier who is falling hurt to death ("tombe blessé à...", Fr.) on the battlefield; he learns that his folks… — African Spir Copy Share Image
I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image