Certainty Quotes

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Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death. — Immanuel Wallerstein
I do not have easy days at home now and I drift between fear and helplessness in sunny rooms where it is unspeakably cold. Strange… — Georg Trakl
I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were… — C.S. Lewis
Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in going. Like his predecessor, the man of the… — Philip Rieff
He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that… — Walter Hill
Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists. — Thomas Huxley
Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge. — Kedar Joshi
Moral certainty is intellectual immorality — Kedar Joshi
The difference between religion and science is the difference between thoughtless certainty and thoughtful doubt. — Kedar Joshi
We have been cocksure of many things that were not so. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The scientist has to take 95 per cent of his subject on trust. He has to because he can't possibly do all the experiments, therefore… — Christopher Zeeman
All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top. — Bertrand Russell
While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is… — Bertrand Russell
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children for a picnic… — Bertrand Russell
Sometimes I think death is a greater awareness than life. Life gives us the illusion of immortality, whereas death gives us the certainty of immortality — Frederick Lenz
I think I developed a culture of healthy skepticism of claims of certainty on any side of the aisle. A sort of boldness in using… — David Plotz
Almost all religions provide opportunities for human beings to convince themselves of their own righteousness, to speak in the name of God, and even to… — Stephen Prothero
Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last. — Arthur Schopenhauer
We want to have certainties and no doubts- results and no experiments- without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt and results only… — Carl Jung
I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat… — M.C. Escher

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