Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
TruthPredictionConsequenceSufferingCertainty The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
CertaintyReligionUncertaintyCourageFaith If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
BeliefDoubtHumilityCertaintyOpen-Mindedness I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
FoundationsEnduranceCertainty I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.
CertaintyDoubtWisdomIgnorance The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
MathematicsRealityCertaintyUncertaintyEpistemology 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.
CertaintyPhilosophyKnowledgeIgnorance 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.
SecurityAuthorityFaithCertaintyComfort We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
