Certainty Quotes - Page 26

• The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, World, Divinity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Order, Words Of Wisdom, Progress

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• Those of us who work in this field see a developing potential for nearly a total control of human emotional status, mental functioning, and will to act. These human phenomena can be started, stopped or eliminated by the use of various types of chemical substances. What we can produce with our science now will affect the entire society." A "utopia" could be found - providing "a sense of stability and certainty, whether realistic or not.

  Nathan S. Kline

  Emotional, Use, Substance

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• If ruling our world stems from developing certainty in our sanity, how do we discover it? The Shambhala teachings instruct us to "put our mind of fearfulness in the cradle of loving-kindnes."

  Sakyong Mipham

  Love, Kindness, Teaching

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• This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Certain, Mistaken

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• The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love, Life, Death

  Sigmund Freud (1922). “Reflections”

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• The good gardener knows with absolute certainty that if he does his part, if he gives the labour, the love, and every aid that his knowledge of his craft, experience of the conditions of his place, and exercise of his personal wit can work together to suggest, that so surely will God give the increase. Then with the honestly-earned success comes the consciousness of encouragement to renewed effort, and, as it were, an echo of the gracious words, 'Well done my good and faithful servant'.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Love, Faith, Encouragement

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

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• I sat there beside him till morning - and as I watched his face in the starlight, then the first ray of the sun on his untroubled forehead and closed eyelids, what I experienced was not a prayer, I do not pray, but that state of spirit at which a prayer is a misguided attempt: a full, confident, affirming self-dedication to my love of the right, to the certainty that the right would win and that this boy would have the kind of future he deserved... I did not expect it to be as great as this - or as hard.

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Morning, Prayer

  "Atlas Shrugged".

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• More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.

  Francois Gautier

  Inspirational, Learning, Clarity Of Purpose

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• What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing! It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure; it has a mathematical certainty in a world where those of us who long for some kind of certainty are forced to settle for crossword puzzles.

  Nora Ephron

  Food, Long, Cooking

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Sep 06, 2016

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• Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

  Henrik Ibsen (1983*). “Seven plays”

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• We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one for a certain time, we do worry. How long does this time have to be?

  Blaise Pascal

  Time, Math, Long

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• While not exactly disgruntled, he was far from feeling gruntled. He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Voice, Feelings, Spokes

  1938 The Code of the Woosters, ch.1.

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• Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

  Jean Rostand

  Giving, Feelings, Said

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• Like Dvoretsky, I think that (all other things being equal), the analytical method of studying chess must give you a colossal advantage over the chess pragmatist, and that there can be no certainty in chess without analysis. I personally acquired these views from my sessions with Mikhail Botvinnik, and they laid the foundations of my chess-playing life.

  Garry Kasparov

  Thinking, Views, Giving

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• All those formal systems, in mathematics and physics and the philosophy of science, which claim to give foundations for certain truth are surely mistaken. I am tempted to say that we do not look for truth, but for knowledge. But I dislike this form of words, for two reasons. First of all, we do look for truth, however we define it, it is what we find that is knowledge. And second, what we fail to find is not truth, but certainty; the nature of truth is exactly the knowledge that we do find.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Philosophy, Two, Giving

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• The fatal hour of this ancient game is approaching. In its modern form this game will soon die a drawing death - the inevitable victory of certainty and mechanization will leave its stamp on the fate of chess.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Fate, Games, Drawing

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• Think about what it feels like when you interact with someone who makes you notice what's good about yourself (raising your status), who is clear with his expectations of you (increasing certainty), who lets you make decisions (increasing autonomy), who connects with you on a human level (increasing relatedness), and who treats you fairly.

  David Rock

  Motivational, Thinking, Expectations

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• Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working-day, he may safely leave the result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation.

  William James

  Inspirational, Education, Morning

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.

  H. L. Mencken

  Mind, Literature, Inquiring

  "Prejudices Second Series".

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• He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly void. Now with a certainty which never after deserted him, he saw the planets - as mere holes or gaps in the living heaven - excluded and rejected wastes of heavy matter and murky air, formed not by addition to, but by subtraction from, the surrounding brightness.

  C. S. Lewis

  Reality, Islands, Air

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• Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.

  Lucille Clifton

  Adversity, Break, Made

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• You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring.

  Winston Churchill

  Running, War, Adversity

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945”

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• Hope is called the anchor of the soul because it gives stability to the Christian life. But hope is not simply a 'wish' I wish that such-and-such would take place rather, it is that which latches on to the certainty of the promises of the future that God has made.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Hope, Anchors

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• Having spent 200 hours on the above, the young player, even if he possesses no special talent for chess, is likely to be among those two or three thousand chessplayers [who play on a par with a master]. There are, however, a quarter of a million chessplayers who annually spend no fewer than 200 hours on chess without making any progress. Without going into any further calculations, I can assert with a high degree of certainty that nowadays we achieve only a fraction of what we are capable of achieving.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Player, Two, Special

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