Certainty Quote by Benjamin Cardozo

It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true…

— George Eliot

Whatever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it…

— John Tillotson

[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to…

— Thomas Sprat

Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth, had need to remember…

— Thomas Hobbes

There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to accept all…

— Agnes Repplier

Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in…

— Leslie Stephen

The quicksilver of creativity will not be solidified by legal pronouncement; it will necessarily flow into new and sometimes frightening fields.

— Anonymous

Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance as the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or…

— John Ruskin

It is the man determines what is said, not the words.

— Henry David Thoreau

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Does a man speak foolishly?--suffer him gladly, for you are wise. Does he speak erroneously?--stop such a man's mouth with sound words that cannot…

— Oliver Cromwell