Life Quote by Baruch Spinoza

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

— Rene Descartes

Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

— Rene Descartes

“And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our…

— Rene Descartes

There are many degrees of Probable, some nearer Truth than others, in the determining of which lies the chief exercise of our Judgment.

— Christiaan Huygens

Human beings are compelled to adopt a belief system; some paradigm to provide meaning, purpose, and understanding to our lives. A quick survey of…

— Terry Rossio

“Speculation is also the natural realm of tolerance, for judgment demands evidence, and it follows that the absence of evidence which forms the core…

— Daniel Abraham

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

— Jorge Luis Borges

We wish to find the truth, no matter where it lies. But to find the truth we need imagination and skepticism both. We will…

— Carl Sagan

“The habits of our lives makes us presume that things will happen in a certain foreseeable way, that there will be a vague coherence…

— Adolfo Bioy Casares

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

— René Descartes

Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must…

— Isaac Watts

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero