From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I can say with unwavering certitude that I have never started a pint of Ben 'n Jerry's ice cream that I didn't… — Gregor Collins Copy Share Image
A mystic doesn’t say “I believe.” They say “I know.” A true mystic will ironically speak with that self-confidence but at the… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I believe that ideas such as absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments of the imagination which should not be… — Max Born Copy Share Image
Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We [tend to] have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We [often feel that we] cannot derive… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
For every gain in deep certitude there is a corresponding growth of superficial "doubt." This doubt is by no means opposed to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
With the certitude of a true believer, Vellya Paapen had assured the twins that there was no such thing in the world… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment of another… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
It's one of the greatest comforts of working in ministry: the unspoken certitude that your spouse did not marry you for your… — Mark Hart Copy Share Image
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
To commit herself to becoming "an apostle of Joy" when humanly speaking she might have felt at the brink of despair, was… — Brian Kolodiejchuk Copy Share Image
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
We too often forget that faith is a matter of questioning and struggle before it becomes one of certitude and peace. You… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never achieve certitude:… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
In music everything is prolonged, everything is edified, and when the enchantment has ceased, we are still bathed in its clarity; solitude… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
Paleontologist Niles Eldredge, a prominent evolutionist, said: 'The doubt that has infiltrated the previous, smugly confident certitude of evolutionary biology’s last twenty… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
La volupte unique et supre" me de l'amour g|"t dans la certitude de faire le mal. The unique, supreme pleasure of love… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It is an unfinished society that we offer the world-a society that is forever committed to change, to improvement and to growth,… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image