Assurance Quote by David Hume

“in our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral…

— Tim Noakes

A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

— David

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

— David Hume

“A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.”

— David Hume

“To begin with rationality in opinion: I should define it merely as the habit of taking account of all relevant evidence in arriving at…

— Bertrand Russell

Assurance grows by repeated conflict, by our repeated experimental proof of the Lord's power and goodness to save; when we have been brought very…

— John Newton

“Moral scepticism can no more be refuted or proved by logic than intellectual scepticism can. When we stick to it that there is truth…

— William James

“For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. The more stupid the…

— H.L. Mencken

Our inner weighing of evidence is not a careful mathematical calculation resulting in a probabilistic estimate of truth, but more like a whirlpool blending…

— Leonard Mlodinow

“As the skeptics’ main teaching was that nothing could be accepted with certainty, conclusions of various degrees of probability could be formed, and these…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral…

— Thomas Jefferson

Assurance is the fruit that grows out of the root of faith.

— Stephen Charnock