Confidence Quote by Tim Noakes

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

— David Hume

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

— David

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

— David Hume

“Generations of Humeans have… been misled into offering analyses of causation and of natural law that have been far too weak because they had…

— Anonymous

“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

“We hold these truths to be self-evident. { Franklin's edit to the assertion in Thomas Jefferson 's original wording, 'We hold these truths to…

— Benjamin Franklin

“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

“All certainty that comes after the 'original sin' of dismantling the matter-of-fact world full of routine and short of reflection must be a manufactured…

— Zygmunt Bauman

“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

“The sages of the world have only the right to tell us that they have analysed their minds and have found these facts, and…

— Swami Vivekananda

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

“It is quite remarkable how firmly belief and conviction stand in the way of reasoning,”

— Till Roenneberg