Certain Quotes - Page 35

There are certain truths so true that they are practically unbelievable.

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.

A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.

A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.

The revolutionary and critical thinker is in a certain way always outside of his society while of course he is at the same time also in it.

Certainty is a cruel mindset.

The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.

Deep down in everyone was sorrow and certainty.

One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.

I have great faith in the military. I have great faith in certain of the commanders, certainly. But I have no faith in Hillary Clinton or the leadership.

I can always tell how stupid someone is by how certain they are about what they're saying.

I don’t want to throw everything away for something uncertain.

One could argue that there exist certain questions that are best left unanswered.

In a world of moral certainty, the unthinkable becomes permissible.

As you get older, you change certain things.

Sometimes a certain innocence is good, but not about yourself.

There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.

Action based on hope just felt better than the paralysis of certainty.

All my life I have had a certain idea of France.

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means - be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives or the absence of meaning.

It's true that I am not from the south and I have a certain reserve. I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone. But it is more a question of style.