Absolute Certainty Quotes
37 quotes by 36 authors
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The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they…
— Herbert Spencer
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One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied…
— Paul Outerbridge
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Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.
— Cassius Jackson Keyser
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We do know, with absolute certainty, that [Saddam] is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to…
— Dick Cheney
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The greatest good that can come to anyone is forming within them an absolute certainty of themselves, and of their relationship to the Universe, forever…
— Ernest Holmes
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Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error.…
— Carl Sagan
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I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert…
— Woodrow Wilson
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If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.
— Joe Biden
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The Principle of Uncertainty fixed once for all the realisation that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that at the very…
— Jacob Bronowski
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As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less likely. Science can say nothing…
— Lawrence M. Krauss
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People always tell me with absolute certainty that they don't trust themselves.
— Richard Bandler
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The [Israelis] believed - they were possessed of an absolute certainty and conviction - that 'terrorists' were in Chatila. How could I explain to them…
— Robert Fisk
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The good gardener knows with absolute certainty that if he does his part, if he gives the labour, the love, and every aid that his…
— Gertrude Jekyll
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I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my…
— Ewan McGregor
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It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties.
— Christopher Hitchens
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The hope we have in Christ is an absolute certainty. We can be sure that the place Christ is preparing for us will be ready…
— Billy Graham
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To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing…
— John Stuart Mill
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Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for…
— John Stuart Mill
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Scientists do not believe in fundamental and absolute certainties. For the scientist, certainty is never an end, but a search; not the ordering of certainty,…
— Ashley Montagu
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When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all…
— Loren Eiseley
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