“When people feel doubt in their hearts, a certainty might be felt in an ice cream.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
I never make the same mistake twice. I make it five or six times, just to be sure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life. — Edgar Morin Copy Share Image
Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our discussions of the economy may sometimes ring in the ears of the public with more certainty than is appropriate. — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity. — Shekhar Kapur Copy Share Image
We want to have certainties and no doubts- results and no experiments- without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“If the evidence is strong enough, you are convinced that there is no other reasonable answer. Your resulting sense of certainty feels… — Robert Burton M.D Copy Share Image
He'd gone to Louddon's fortress to take Madelyne captive. His plan was revenge; an eye for an eye. And that had been… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must always have their consequences.… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Whenever a man is known to seek promotion by intrigue, by temporizing, or by resorting to the haunts of vulgarity and vice… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
“Then he quoted from a French Jesuit named Teilhard de Chardin: “He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the… — Matthew Thomas Copy Share Image
Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of… — Edgar Friedenberg Copy Share Image
I am convinced that 1941 will be the crucial year of a great New Order in Europe. The world shall open up… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
No sooner had he thought this than he realized what was anchoring his happiness. It was purpose. He knew what he wanted… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
Climate Change is a national security issue. We found that climate instability will lead to instability in geopolitics and impact American military… — Gordon R. Sullivan Copy Share Image
The good gardener knows with absolute certainty that if he does his part, if he gives the labour, the love, and every… — Gertrude Jekyll Copy Share Image
Revolution is the only thing, the only power, that ever worked out freedom for any people. The powers that have ruled long… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
“And now, a year has passed since I undertook to go to war, and I wake every day, sweating, in the solitude… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Lack of self-confidence is, more often than not, simple laziness. We feel confused and uncertain because we do not know. But instead… — Laurence Boldt Copy Share Image
For a Man cannot believe a Miracle without relying upon Sense, nor Transubstantiation without renouncing it. So that never were any two… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
“If anyone doesn't agree with you, the truth is on your side.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Just because someone seems to have more certainty, doesn't mean they're right. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The few certainties in our existences are pain, death and bereavement. — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share Image
I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words? — Eileen Wilks Copy Share Image
