Guillerminna Quotes & Sayings

Humans may crave absolute certainty; they may aspire to it; they may pretend, as partisans of certain religions do, to have attained it. But the history of science - by far the most successful claim to knowledge accessible to humans - teaches that the most we can hope for is successive improvement in our understanding, learning from our mistakes, an asymptotic approach to the Universe, but with the proviso that absolute certainty will always elude us. — Carl Sagan

Get your knowledge quickly and then use it. If you can use it you will retain it. — Alfred North Whitehead

Commit everything you do to the LORD. Trust him, and he will help you. (Psalm 37:5 NLT) — Rick Warren

This is one of theprimary mechanisms whereby, if a fool says the sun is shining, we do notcorrectly discard this as irrelevant nonevidence, but rather find ourselvesimpelled to say that it must be dark outside. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

When someone you loved was depending on your lie, it was perfectly easy. — Liane Moriarty

Gen. Washington having recrossed the Schuylkill, determined, on the 16th of September, again to meet Gen. Howe in the field of battle. The arrangements were made and the advance parties had already commenced firing, when there came on a violent shower of rain, which unfitted both armies for action. — Benjamin Tallmadge

My dad said to me the other day, I really am an artistic person. I was shocked as I never saw him as a creative. I think me and my sisters are living out that side of him as my sister is another creative person, she's a songwriter. — Robert Pattinson

I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend. — Carine Roitfeld

In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor. — Gore Vidal