Certitude Quote by Joseph Heller Download Open image “From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.” — Joseph Heller ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Certitude Character History Lasting Men Moral Motivated Teach
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn’t teach us anything. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends.… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied. — Benedetto Croce Copy Share Image
“Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. "That's some catch, that… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
I’m cold,' Snowden said softly, 'I’m cold.' 'You’re going to be all right, kid,' Yossarian reassured him with a grin. 'You’re going to be… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Captain Flume was obsessed with the idea that Chief White Halfoat would tiptoe up to his cot one night when he was sound asleep… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Depreciating motels, junked automobiles, and quick-food joints grow like amber waves of grain.” — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“That was where he wanted to be if he had to be there at all, instead of hung out there in front like some… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Yossarian was moved by such intense pity for his poverty that he wanted to smash his pale. sad, sickly face with his fist and… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
You have deep-seated survival anxieties. And you don't like bigots, bullies, snobs or hypocrites. Subconsciously there are many people you hate." "Consciously, sir, consciously,"… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every bushel of… — 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 finish in… — 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 same time… — 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 admissible in… — 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 dreams, So… — 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 ideoologues, dogmatists,… — 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 a sense… — 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 genuine faith,… — 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 as a… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image