Certain Quote by Thomas Huxley

It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence…

— Thomas Huxley

…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they…

— Leo Tolstoy

“When I say that a thing is true, I mean that I cannot help believing it.... But ... I do not venture to assume…

— Philip Meyer

He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.

— Baruch Spinoza

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

— Desiderius Erasmus

He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false.

— Baruch Spinoza

There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find out, straining…

— Walter Raleigh

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

— David Halberstam

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most…

— Remy de Gourmont

Nothing makes a man so virtuous as belief of the truth. A lying doctrine will soon beget a lying practice. A man cannot have…

— Charles Spurgeon

“The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are not trained…

— Bertrand Russell

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.

— Bertrand Russell