About Quote by Andre Aciman

Authors use 'almost' to avoid stating an outright fact, as though there were something inauthentic, dishonest, unfinished, undecided or even unwholesome - some might…

— Andre Aciman

“Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to perfect truth.”

— Charles Ives

“Misinterpretations of Revelation often begin by misconceiving the kind of book it is.”

— Richard Bauckham

“Perhaps enough has been said to indicate that the imagery of Revelation requires close and appropriate study if modern readers are to grasp much…

— Richard Bauckham

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

— Erich Fromm

“Never perceive anything as being inevitable or predestined. The only absolute is uncertainty.”

— Lionel Suggs

Nothing is more certain than uncertainties: / Fortune is full of fresh variety; / Constant in nothing but inconstancy.

— Richard Barnfield

Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated…

— Benjamin Franklin

“If we linger in indecision, as does Buridan’s beast, we will not perish. We will simply miss an opportunity to act decisively in the…

— Terryl Givens

“In quick succession he tried surprise, toughness and nonchalance but nothing lasted and the end result was only uncertainty”

— Peter Grainger

Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still

— Wislawa Szymborska

The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for "literalists," becomes much simpler when we read it typologically, as a mosiac of allusions…

— Northrop Frye