Quotes About Certainty

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

Only the fools are certain and assured.

We need wisdom the most when we believe in it the least.

The beginning of all wisdom is to understand that you don't know. To know is the enemy of all learning. To be sure is the enemy of wisdom.

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.

It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.

Fear exists because we do not have faith.

None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.

Trust does not mean that everything will be all right. Trust means everything is already all right.

Truth requires no prop to make it stand.

Maturity begins when you are content with knowing what you are saying is correct, rather than prove that someone else is wrong

I have the most perfect confidence in your indiscretion

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people's refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively know is true.

None is absolutely true.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.

Ha a Csapágy-Centrum oldaláról rendelsz, biztosan jó helyr?l rendelsz.

he knew that nothing ever surprised the Creator of heaven and earth. As the circuit preacher had said a month or so ago, "God never leans over the balcony of heaven and gasps." James