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Certainty Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
- Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has any…
- He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.
- Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to eternal…
- No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.
- To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand experience…
- We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses,…
More Certainty Quotes
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he… — Francis Bacon
- If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a… — William Barclay
- The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that… — Charles Baudelaire
- I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. — Simone de Beauvoir
- Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own. — Geraldine Brooks
- There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing. — Robert Burns
- If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom. — Lord Byron
- Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. — Albert Camus
- One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. — Thomas Carlyle
- It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later… — Jonathan Carroll