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One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned. -- Jon Kyl
Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released. -- Ralph Steadman
I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge. -- Rene Descartes
Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken -- Philip Wylie
We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead. -- Donald Rumsfeld
In some subsequent episodes, certain individuals have certain knowledge of certain events that they wouldn't have, if they didn't have access to the future. -- Andrew Kreisberg
To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it is useless to offer the most certain knowledge of the laws of numbers and the arrangement of the universe -- Etienne Gilson
Computerization brings about an essential change in the way the worker can know the world and, with it, a crisis of confidence inthe possibility of certain knowledge. -- Shoshana Zuboff
...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was... -- Terry Pratchett
It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our persuasions. -- John Locke
The conversation, like many others I had with people on trains, derived an easy candour from the shared journey, the comfort of the dining car, and the certain knowledge that neither of us would see each other again. -- Paul Theroux
Science does not mean an idle resting upon a body of certain knowledge; it means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an end which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but which the intellect can never fully grasp. -- Max Planck
What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him....The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do. -- Walter Lippmann
Every cell has certain knowledge. I think knowledge is contained within the genetics, even. I think scientists will find that. I don't think there's a gay gene, though. They may argue that down, but I don't think that, because that's a preference. -- RZA
Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts through the Holy Spirit. -- John Calvin
Certain knowledge of what to fight for, and what to fight against, gives meaning to life and provides its own version of discipline: never give up. That kind of meaning is illusory, I now believe, and blinkered. Fealty to a mystical absolute is a formula for disaster, especially in transformative times. -- Stewart Brand
The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable. -- Michel de Montaigne
Success is not something that can be measured or worn on a watch or hung on a wall. It is not the esteem of colleagues, or the admiration of the community, or the appreciation of patients. Success is the certain knowledge that you have become yourself, the person you will meant to be from all time. That should be reward enough. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
In real science a hypothesis can never be proved true...A science which confines itself to correlating phenomena can never learn anything about the reality underlying the phenomena, while a science which goes further than this and introduces hypotheses about reality, can never acquire certain knowledge of a positive kind about reality; in whatever way we proceed, this is forever denied us. -- James Jeans
You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want some one made of sterner stuff. You want, as it were, a sparring-partner, some one with whom you can quarrel happily with the certain knowledge that he will not curl up in a ball for you to kick, but will be there with the return wallop. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of all to have a certain knowledge of, and which belong to no distinct science. Wherefore all men in some way participate of both; since all, to a certain extent, attempt, as well to sift, as to maintain an argument; as well to defend themselves, as to impeach. -- Aristotle
When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation. -- Abu Bakr
Happy families do have certain things in common. Today we finally have the knowledge to know what those things are. -- Bruce Feiler
Testimony is personal knowledge, based upon the witness of the Holy Ghost, that certain facts of eternal significance are true. -- David A. Bednar
It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge. -- Charles Babbage
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance. -- Bertrand Russell
Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure. -- John Cale
That economic decisions are made without certain knowledge of the consequences is pretty self-evident. But, although many economists were aware of this elementary fact, there was no systematic analysis of economic uncertainty until about 1950. -- Kenneth Arrow
I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child. -- Anne Sullivan
I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it. -- Todd Barry
Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds. -- Herbert Simon
Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue. -- Sally Ride
Human knowledge has been changing from the word 'go,' and people, in certain respects, behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds. -- Herbert A. Simon
To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It produced a certain sort of person of which I was a typical specimen: the mental contortionist, able to rise to almost every challenge placed before him, except the challenge of real self-knowledge. -- Walter Kirn
The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers. -- Alan Cumming
We need to get back to reasoning and thinking things through. The future generation is being brought up in greed and without a true understanding of civics. There is no more emphasis on knowledge and time. As a society we need to process ideas and understand what certain principles are based upon. -- Richard Dreyfuss
We become attached to certain characters in novels, mostly because they have some mystery attaching to them. We re-read the books, but we're still left wanting to know more. In my own case, it was 'Great Expectations' and Miss Havisham in particular. Luckily, writers have the option of making up the knowledge that reading doesn't supply. -- Ronald Frame
I seriously feel like the best days are ahead, and I like the idea of getting to do everything I did before but with more knowledge, experience, and street smarts. There's a certain love, appreciation, and gratitude that you have at 40 that you don't have when you're younger, and it makes every accomplishment feel so much better. -- Jennifer Lopez
Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The more certain our knowledge the less we know. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Certain kinds of knowledge rob people of their sleep. -- Haruki Murakami
No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety. -- Jonathan Edwards
As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more. -- Ayn Rand
My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation. -- Poul Anderson
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity. -- John Calvin
Truth ain't be in secret site to be found.It lies within certain levels of understanding and knowledge. -- Toba Beta
Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it? -- Bertrand Russell
Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber. -- Terry Pratchett
When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge. -- Isaac Watts
Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain. -- Richard P. Feynman
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge. -- Charles Caleb Colton
No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import. -- Thomas de Quincey
IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about. -- Ambrose Bierce
One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge. -- Michel Foucault
Be patient and live with the knowledge that all you are searching for is certain to come if you prepare for it and expect it. -- Robin S
Perhaps they didn't know they were at sea. Was there a certain percentage of people at sea who lacked the knowledge that they were at sea? -- Ben Marcus
Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the picture. -- W. S. Merwin
To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like power. -- Susan Sontag
She [Venison] had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of certain places only. -- Laura Riding
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress. -- Samuel Johnson
It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but not of the world. -- Jostein Gaarder
Now, it's common knowledge that most towns of a certain size have a witch, if only to eat misbehaving children and the occasional puppy who wanders into her yard. -- John August
It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself. -- John Calvin
There are certain things that have universal attributes, like music. Something of greater magnitude is conveyed by them. They connect us with the universal storehouse of life and knowledge. -- Swami Paramananda

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