Inspirational Quotes
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Certainty Quotes
CertaintyEpistemologyMathematicsRealityUncertainty 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.
CertaintyConsequencePredictionSufferingTruth 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.
CertaintyDoubtIgnoranceWisdom The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
CertaintyEnduranceFoundations 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.
CertaintyHuman NatureIntellectVice The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
BeliefCertaintyHypothesisKnowledgeUnderstanding The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.
CertaintyConfidenceDeterminationPromiseResolve When I say something's going to happen, it's going to happen.
CertaintyRightnessWrongness Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
CertaintyCourageFaithReligionUncertainty 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!
CertaintyIgnoranceKnowledgePhilosophy 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.
BeliefCertaintyDoubtHumilityOpen-mindedness I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.