Certain Quotes
7889 quotes by 4860 authors
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Remember, life is always uncertain. Everything dead is certain, life is always uncertain. Everything dead is solid, fixed - its nature cannot be changed; everything…
— Rajneesh
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Nothing is secure. That is my message. Nothing can be secure, because a secure life will be worse than death. Nothing is certain. Life is…
— Rajneesh
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Remember, intelligence is not part of the mind. Intellect is, but intelligence is not; hence, the intellectual is full of mind but in life he…
— Rajneesh
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The world is not religious because religion is imposed upon us. The parents are in a hurry to impose; the church, the state, the country…
— Rajneesh
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Miserliness has its own conveniences, otherwise nobody would be a miser. If you are not a miser, you become more insecure. If you cling to…
— Rajneesh
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A man of knowing attains to a sense of humour. Let this always be remembered. If you see someone who has no sense of humour,…
— Rajneesh
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Any action coming out of unconsciousness is sin. The action may look virtuous, but it cannot be. You may create a beautiful facade, a character,…
— Rajneesh
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'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true…
— David Hume
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Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about a truth. Everyone…
— Saint Augustine
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
— Hannah More
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A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing…
— William Hazlitt
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The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice! I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that is certain; for…
— Christopher Columbus
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A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.
— Henri Matisse
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a…
— Roy Lichtenstein
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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it: I feel a…
— Ansel Adams
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Failure does not exist. Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed. Once you believe that no act…
— Wayne Dyer
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If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit…
— Alexander Smith
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A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It…
— Lisa Kudrow
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