#certainty

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#edge #knowledge #uncertainty #unending

We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run. ↗

— Al Stewart

#days #down #eternity #far #here

I Don’t Know whether lust is a human coarseness or a human fineness: I don’t know why death holds a so sweet lure since it would take away my Body: I don’t know that I wouldn’t deny my Christ, if I had one, three times before a given cockcrow: I don’t know on the other hand that I would: I don’t know whether honor is a reality in human beings or a pose: I don’t know that I mayn’t be able to think with my Body when it is in its coffin. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#sex #uncertainty #death

We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly. ↗

— Bob McDonnell

#certainty #climate #lost #predictability #recovering

The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#begun #century #era #focus #heightened

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#accomplish #anything #beliefs #certain #certainty

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck. ↗

— Elizabeth Bibesco

#call #certainty #hope #luck #often

Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#change #creating #division #fear #manipulate

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#humility #just #learn #sign #uncertainty

The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#considered #excellency #gentleman #glorious #greatest