Certain Knowledge Quotes
15 quotes by 15 authors
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Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud and fierce even…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead.
— Donald Rumsfeld
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The conversation, like many others I had with people on trains, derived an easy candour from the shared journey, the comfort of the dining car,…
— Paul Theroux
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What with the political monopoly, the Cheka and the Red Army, all that now existed of the 'Commune-State' of our dreams was a theoretical myth.…
— Victor Serge
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Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken
— Philip Wylie
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To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it is useless to offer the most certain knowledge of the laws of numbers and the arrangement of…
— Etienne Gilson
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Science does not mean an idle resting upon a body of certain knowledge; it means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an end which…
— Max Planck
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It may well happen that what is in itself the more certain on account of the weakness of our intelligence, which is dazzled by the…
— Thomas Aquinas
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What . . . is this testimony of Jesus, how can it be acquired, and what will it do for those who receive it? The…
— Keith B. McMullin
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One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that…
— Jon Kyl
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You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want some one made…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness…
— Terry Pratchett
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Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them. This is our…
— Blaise Pascal
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It would be wise to balance forgiveness against the certain knowledge that evil exists, and some people enjoy harming others.
— Senoraroy
Who Wrote These Certain Knowledge Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 15 Certain Knowledge Quotes as follows: