Life journey Quote by Maryellen Briggs

What can we say with certainty?

— Voltaire

“In order to determine whether we can know anything with certainty, we first have to doubt everything we know”

— Anonymous

We know more than we can tell.

— Michael Polanyi

“If it were possible for us to see further than our knowledge extends and out a little over the outworks of our surmising, perhaps…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The more certain our knowledge the less we know.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Knowledge breeds doubt, not certainty, And the more we know the more uncertain we become.

— A. J. P. Taylor

“But of course if we knew what awaited—the losses and disappointments and grief that are inevitable, the unthinkable things we will prove capable of—the…

— Anne D. LeClaire

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.

— Bertrand Russell

Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only…

— Julian Jaynes

I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.

— Christiaan Huygens

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

— Eduardo Chillida