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Certainty Quotes

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty Picture Quote #1

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it Picture Quote #1

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! Picture Quote #1

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life Picture Quote #1

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight Picture Quote #1

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty Picture Quote #1

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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty, and leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing Picture Quote #1

If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty Picture Quote #1

Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far the methods, by which so many of the laws of the physical world have been numbered among truths irrevocably acquired and universally assented to, can be made instrumental to the gradual formation of a similar body of received doctrine in moral and political science Picture Quote #1

To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility Picture Quote #1

Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life Picture Quote #1

The doctrine called philosophical necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise the character and disposition of the individual, the manner in which he will act might be unerringly inferred: that if we knew the person thoroughly, and knew all the inducements which are acting upon him, we could foretell his conduct with as much certainty as we can predict any physical event Picture Quote #1

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A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty Picture Quote #1

Moral principles require reasoning and discourse to discover the certainty of their truths; they lie not open as natural characters engravers on the mind Picture Quote #1

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops Picture Quote #1

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality Picture Quote #1

Belief in a divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race Picture Quote #1

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made Picture Quote #1

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To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education Picture Quote #1

I never imagined it wouldn’t work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way Picture Quote #1

The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. It has not been accepted, because we’ve been in an anthropocentric era Picture Quote #1

One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image Picture Quote #1

We have to be mindful that there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which is us and our allies Picture Quote #1

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities Picture Quote #1

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Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions Picture Quote #1

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface Picture Quote #1

As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play Picture Quote #1

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance Picture Quote #1

Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together Picture Quote #1

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore Picture Quote #1

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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty (Certainty Quotes) To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it (Certainty Quotes) If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! (Certainty Quotes) For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life (Certainty Quotes) The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight (Certainty Quotes) Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty (Certainty Quotes) To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty, and leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing (Certainty Quotes) If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty (Certainty Quotes) Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far the methods, by which so many of the laws of the physical world have been numbered among truths irrevocably acquired and universally assented to, can be made instrumental to the gradual formation of a similar body of received doctrine in moral and political science (Certainty Quotes) To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility (Certainty Quotes) Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life (Certainty Quotes) The doctrine called philosophical necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise the character and disposition of the individual, the manner in which he will act might be unerringly inferred: that if we knew the person thoroughly, and knew all the inducements which are acting upon him, we could foretell his conduct with as much certainty as we can predict any physical event (Certainty Quotes) A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty (Certainty Quotes) Moral principles require reasoning and discourse to discover the certainty of their truths; they lie not open as natural characters engravers on the mind (Certainty Quotes) I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops (Certainty Quotes) He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality (Certainty Quotes) Belief in a divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race (Certainty Quotes) Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made (Certainty Quotes) To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education (Certainty Quotes) I never imagined it wouldn’t work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way (Certainty Quotes) The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. It has not been accepted, because we’ve been in an anthropocentric era (Certainty Quotes) One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image (Certainty Quotes) We have to be mindful that there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which is us and our allies (Certainty Quotes) Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities (Certainty Quotes) Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions (Certainty Quotes) We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface (Certainty Quotes) As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play (Certainty Quotes) I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance (Certainty Quotes) Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together (Certainty Quotes) And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore (Certainty Quotes)

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