Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility. — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
“I know that I do not know, and uncertainty, certainly, is the cruelest of words.” — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
We have to be mindful that there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which… — Cofer Black Copy Share Image
And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
The universe only gives you what you can handle, so trust that whatever is happening to you is exactly what you need.… — Patricia Velasquez Copy Share Image
“Curiosity is a worthwhile virtue than certainty. While the former leads to grow, the latter muzzles your growth and results in stagnation...” — Assegid Habtewold Copy Share Image
In the [John F.] Kennedy case, I believe the absence of a conspiracy can be proved to a virtual certainty. — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
Our hope is a certainty based on the truths that God is in complete control of our universe and that He loves… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“One cannot escape from the world with greater certainty than through art, and one cannot relate to it with greater certainty than… — Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Copy Share Image
Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
Let us never give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day. Do not give in to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“But if the biblical story is true, the kind of certainty proper to a human being will be one which rests on… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
My only complaint with 'Dickie' Bird is that he requires a degree of certainty that is almost neurotic; like the man who… — Mike Brearley Copy Share Image
until it had been clearly explained that men were always and always partly wrong in all their ideas, life would be full… — Dorothy Richardson Copy Share Image
Look at the chaos of European history. Europeans cannot believe in certainty. But Americans believe in certainty. Americans think this can go… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
Existential anxiety of doubt drives the person toward the creation of certitude of systems of meaning, which are supported by tradition and… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
we cannot break a law of eternal justice, however ignorantly, but throughout the entire universe will there be a jar of discord… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
What visual information does is it creates priorities. You cannot know with certainty what lies behind something else. There are very few… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
The issue here is this, that the Government's argument at the present moment is the argument that now the war is over,… — Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu 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
Wisdom is not finally tested in schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully independent otherworldly… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
Because I am a Christian, therefore, every day in which I do not penetrate more deeply into the knowledge of God's Word… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There are no means of attaining faith and certainty except through the Qur'an. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
The only certainties that don't break down are those acquired in prayer. — Reinhold Schneider Copy Share Image
“...but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death. — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Nothing ever goes exactly as planned. Thats why its a plan...not a certainty. — Anonymous Copy Share Image