I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely “normal” life or settle for an average existence. No, I am destined for more—much, much more. —Melody Carlson in Finding Alice More about this quote Tags: hope purpose certainty ordinary Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. —Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. More about this quote Tags: certainty doubt principles civilization civilized Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Friends, I was pretty sure, lift their friends up; they don’t weigh them down like a sack full of stones. —Dana Reinhardt in The Summer I Learned to Fly More about this quote Tags: friendship friends certainty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there. —Laurence J. Peter More about this quote Tags: certainty USA direction determination speed Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: knowledge certainty doubt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. —Alfred Korzybski More about this quote Tags: learning knowledge certainty doubt thinking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am certain there is too much certainty in the world. —Michael Crichton More about this quote Tags: opinion humor certainty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: knowledge certainty infinite civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Look twice before you leap. —Charlotte Bronte More about this quote Tags: attention risk certainty looking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. . . . All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: progress certainty morality inferiority doubt enforcement Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. —Rudyard Kipling More about this quote Tags: certainty confidence gender Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. —James Thurber More about this quote Tags: questions knowledge curiosity certainty doubt answers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You see, love is a funny thing. There are no guarantees, just the day-to-day and the moment. You make vows, hope for the best, and do your damnedest to love the person you're with. —Jennifer Probst in Searching for Someday More about this quote Tags: love hope certainty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. —Stephen Jay Gould More about this quote Tags: learning knowledge certainty science arrogance centrality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not. —Deb Caletti in The Secret Life of Prince Charming More about this quote Tags: love certainty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email