Certain Quotes - Page 30

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen.

Every brush stroke has a certain tension, a certain nervousness. Every brush stroke is, in a sense, some kind of an accident.

I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias.

This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.

In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.

And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.

It's better for me to go up against someone's passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things.

The nature of the spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty.

Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.

Maybe the science is uncertain, maybe we don't have to worry about it. Climate change is the worst, but there's others.

I know for certain that miracles happen, but only for those who hang on to hope.

Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion

I don't know why certain people shine for others. I don know why you and not someone else

The older we become, the more certain our future.

The problem with anger is that it's so consuming. You've got to take it easy on yourself at a certain point.

Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.

Certain signs precede certain events.

I started out making furniture because I couldn't find certain things, and then I really got into it.

Generally speaking, you only put someone on paid leave if you're pretty certain that they might be terminated from the company once you do your investigation.

In the absence of certainty, instinct is all you can follow.

There's a certain romanticism associated with exploration of space, which is one of the major factors why we'll continue.

It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our persuasions.

For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

The only unchangable certainty in life is that nothing is unchangable or certain.

What you have to do in certain situations, that's called situational hitting.