Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.[GK Chesterton] Quote:It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.[GK Chesterton] Quote:I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true![Dave Barry] Quote:Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.[Dave Barry] Quote:Puns are little plays on words that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain self-satisfied way to indicate that he thinks that you must think that he is by far the cleverest person on Earth now that Benjamin Franklin is dead.[Dave Barry] Quote:The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.[Stephen Hawking] Quote:Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.[Aristotle] Quote:In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.[Colin Powell] Quote:Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.[Mark Twain] Quote:I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.[Bill Cosby] Quote:I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.[George Carlin] Quote:To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.[Woody Allen] Quote:To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soulmate is the one you are actually married to.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that men know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is look at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.[Dave Barry] Quote:Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.[Leon Trotsky] Quote:"Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain. [Pliny the Elder] Quote:Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true. [Solomon Short] Quote:Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. [Seneca] Quote:Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure. [George Santayana] Quote:If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong. [Arthur C. Clarke] Quote:There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:For certain is death for the born<br>And certain is birth for the dead;<br>Therefore over the inevitable<br>Thou shouldst not grieve. [Bhagavad Gita] Quote:[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. [Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:I believe that uncertainty is rally my spirit's way of whispering, ""I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here."" [Oprah Winfrey] Quote:Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. [Albert Einstein] Quote:As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. [Albert Einstein] Quote:The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. [Ursula K. LeGuin] Quote:What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. [Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. [Fran Lebowitz] Quote:The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. [Bertrand Russell] Quote: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] Quote:The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. [Voltaire] Quote:In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. [Benjamin Franklin] Quote:The curtain rises on a vast primitive wasteland, not unlike certain parts of New jersey. [Woody Allen] Definitions of: certainDefinition: Assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions concerning.Definition: Determined; resolved; -- used with an infinitive. Definition: Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact. Definition: Actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable. Definition: Unfailing; infallible. Definition: Fixed or stated; regular; determinate. Definition: Not specifically named; indeterminate; indefinite; one or some; -- sometimes used independenty as a noun, and meaning certain persons. Definition: Certainly. |
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