Certain Quotes - Page 13

One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.

The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

You might say that certain words are only pegs to hang intonations on.

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

Doing something purely for one's own enjoyment is fine, but, I must admit, finding that others enjoy it as well has a certain power over the corners of my mouth.

It was not once upon a time, but a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, that Walt Disney cast a spell on the fairy tale, and he has held it captive ever since.

An obsession with control generally seems to reflect a fear of uncertainty.

Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

For sure, you have to be lost to find a place that can’t be found.

The only thing we can really count on in this uncertain world is human unreliability itself.

The intuitive magician will find a certain relationship between the earth zone and the muladhara center.

If we are to remain mission focused, as we must be if we are to be relevant in an uncertain age, the abandoning those things that do not further the mission is a leadership imperative.

Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. String theory does so again because a point particle is replaced by a string, which is more spread out.

In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being unsure.

The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.

There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.

There are certain religions that require you to pray five times a day and I never understood why Christians aren't asked to pray five times a day.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.

Certainty is the enemy of mankind. If you're certain about everything, you have the Inquisition, you have Nazis and you have - that certainty is something to be guarded about.

Manchester has a certain reputation of being cool.

Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.

Certain people always say we should go back to nature.I notice they never say we should go forward to nature. It seemstometheyare more concerned that we should go back, than about nature.

Life's most precious gift is uncertainty.

Life is unresolved, confusing, bewildering, puzzling, ambiguous. You don't really know what's going to happen. The future is uncertain for everybody.

Just because someone seems to have more certainty, doesn't mean they're right.