Certainty Quote by Will Durant Download Open image “Inquiry is fatal to certainty.” — Will Durant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Certainty Doubt Inquiry Research
You have to be again innocent, ignorant, not knowing anything, so that the questions can start arising again. Again the inquiry becomes alive, and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention. — Hudson Maxim Copy Share Image
Seeking to know is too often learning to doubt — Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulieres Copy Share Image
Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion. — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“This is the tragedy of almost every civilization—that its soul is in its faith, and seldom survives philosophy.” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Hence the uselessness of logic: no one ever convinced anybody by logic; and even logicians use logic only as a source of income. To… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Intellectualism—the conception of man as above all a thinking animal, consciously adapting means to rationally chosen ends—fell sick with Rousseau, took to its bed… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“All those fascinating varieties of terrain—mountains and valleys, fiords and straits, gulfs and streams—that make Europe a panorama of diverse delight, have broken the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“To be great is not to be placed above humanity, ruling others; but to stand above the partialities and futilities of uninformed desire, and… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is… — Colin Greenwood Copy Share Image
Every single person who is a member of our party deserves to have certainty. They deserve to know that my attention and focus is… — Annamie Paul Copy Share Image
The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they… — Sam Graves Copy Share Image
[I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Do not lose hope; St. Joseph also experienced moments of difficulty, but he never lost faith and was able to overcome them, in the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
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