#absence

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. ↗

— Mark Twain

#absence #fear #mastery #resistance

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence! ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#bugs #never #presence #program #show

That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter. ↗

— Edward Everett

#apparent #battle #could #doubt #encounter

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity. ↗

— Jean Henri Fabre

#absolutely #am #answer #appearance #confess

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#affirmative #almost #black #colour #colours

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#absurdity #deeper #experience #in other words #meaning

I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#could #death #i #me #said

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. ↗

— Zhuangzi

#happiness #striving

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? ↗

— Saint Augustine

#absence #justice #organized #robbery #sovereignty

The absence of political personalities in the government will help rather than hinder a solid base of support for the government in parliament and in the political parties because it will remove one ground for disagreement. ↗

— Mario Monti

#base #because #disagreement #government #ground