Certainty Quotes - Page 9

• I'm a member of that half of the human race which is inclined to divide the human race into two kinds of people. My dividing line runs between the people who crave certainty and the people who trust chance.

  John Perry Barlow

  Running, Two, Race

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• Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.

  Bertrand Russell

  Race, Belief, Divine

  Bertrand Russell (1996). “Unpopular Essays”, p.176, Psychology Press

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• The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  World, Today, Tomorrow

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• For investor confidence, it is important that there is certainty about the future of Ireland in E.U.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Important, Ireland, Investors

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• The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.

  Vicente del Bosque

  Football, Joy, Important

  "Del Bosque's pride in leaving lasting impression". The UEFA.com Interview, www.uefa.com. June 30, 2012.

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• No one can forecast the economy with certainty.

  Jamie Dimon

  Economy, Forecasts

  "Improving Housing Market Driving Economy: Jamie Dimon" by Margo D. Beller, www.cnbc.com. March 28, 2012.

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• What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true!

  David Eagleman

  Book, Numbers, Stories

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• It is certain because it is impossible. -Certum est quia impossibile

  Tertullian

  Impossible, Certain

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• To find the length of an object, we have to perform certain physical operations. The concept of length is therefore fixed when the operations by which length is measured are fixed that is, the concept of length involves as much as and nothing more than the set of operations by which length is determined.

  Percy Williams Bridgman

  Determined, Length, Operations

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• VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Virtue, Certain, Abstention

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.230, 谷月社

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• The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise the character and disposition of the individual, the manner in which he will act might be unerringly inferred: that if we knew the person thoroughly, and knew all the inducements which are acting upon him, we could foretell his conduct with as much certainty as we can predict any physical event.

  John Stuart Mill

  Philosophical, Character, Science

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive: Mill's Works”, p.852, VM eBooks

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• Moral certainty is never more than probability.

  Giovanni Battista Beccaria

  Science, Moral, Probability

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• ... the body, normally, is never in question: our bodies are beyond question, or perhaps beneath question - they are simply, unquestionably, there. This unquestionability of the body, is, for Wittgenstein, the start and basis of all knowledge and certainty.

  Oliver Sacks

  Body, Bases

  Oliver Sacks (2014). “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic”, p.48, Pan Macmillan

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• Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

  Steve Hackett

  Philosophy, Deals

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• To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand experience which in its origins, or means, or end has passed through one of the five senses.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Mother, Philosophy, Mean

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• Finally, when all was said and done, the certainty (so often experienced, yet always new) that female charms, the kind that inflame the senses, are no more than kitchen smells: they tease you when you're hungry and disgust you when you've had your fill.

  M. Ageyev

  Smell, Lust, Kitchen

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• “Et Tu, Babe” was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer’s life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing, it’s my whole life.

  Mark Leyner

  Reading, Writing, Certainty In Life

  "Mark Leyner On “War, Inc.”". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. May 22, 2008.

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• I shall devote all my efforts to bring light into the immense obscurity that today reigns in Analysis. It so lacks any plan or system, that one is really astonished that there are so many people who devote themselves to it - and, still worse, it is absolutely devoid of any rigor.

  Niels Henrik Abel

  Light, People, Effort

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• The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. Today, scholars no longer limit themselves to the three dimensions of Euclid. The painters have been lead quite naturally, one might say by intuition, to preoccupy themselves with the new possibilities of spatial measurement which, in the language of the modern studios, are designated by the term fourth dimension.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Art, Intuition, Today

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• Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.

  Aristotle

  Doe, Needs, Use

  Aristotle (2016). “Physics”, p.82, Aristotle

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• The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.

  Aristotle

  Two, Three, Ontology

  "On the Heavens". Treatise by Aristotle (Book 1), 350 BC.

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• It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery... Adults know too much about failure; they're more cynical and resigned and fearful.

  Lance Armstrong

  Children, Cancer, Bravery

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• You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you changed your mind. Now you're certain. You're so... sloppy. You don't know anything. The book, the math, the dates, the writing, all that stuff you decided with your buddies, it's just evidence. It doesn't finish the job. It doesn't prove anything.

  David Auburn

  Running, Jobs, Book

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• Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ontology, Infinity, Logic

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• The slicing technique from Flatland still remains one of the most powerful tools for dealing with aggregates in higher dimensions.

  Thomas Banchoff

  Powerful, Technique, Tools

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