Quotes About Certainty

Science in its entirety is true and evident cognition.

Right understanding is the most equally divided thing in the World; for every one beleevs himself so well stor'd with it, that even those who in all other things are the hardest to be pleas'd, seldom desire more of it then they have; wherein it is not likely that all Men are deceived:

I am, I exist" is necessarily true every time I utter it or conceive it in my mind.

Tüm yöntem akl?n birtak?m gerçeklere varmak için çabas?n? yönlendirmek zorunda olduÄŸu konular?n s?ras?na ve konumuna dayan?r. Bunu sürdürebilmek için güçlük içeren ve muÄŸlak önermeleri aÅŸamal? olarak daha basite indirgemek, sonra da bunlar?n sezgisinden hareket ederek ayn? ÅŸekilde diÄŸer önermelerin bilgisine varmak gerekir.

I am, I exist, is necessarily true each time that I pronounce it, or that I mentally concieve it.

Je pense, donc je suis.

I did not imitate the skeptics who doubt only for doubting's sake, and pretend to be always undecided; on the contrary, my whole intention was to arrive at a certainty, and to dig away the drift and the sand until I reached the rock or the clay beneath.

Et pour nous, en voyant des choses dans lesquelles, selon certains sens, nous ne remarquons point de limites, nous n'assurerons pas pour cela qu'elles soient infinies, mais nous les estimerons seulement indéfinies

Descartes busca reglas fijas para descubrir verdades, no para defender tesis o exponer teorías.

Pour examiner la vérité, il est besoin, une fois dans sa vie, de mettre toutes choses en doute autant qu'il se peut.

En realidad, la hipótesis del genio maligno ni es un juego ni un círculo de hierro, sino un movimiento dialéctico, muy importante en el curso del pensamiento cartesiano. Repárese en que la hipótesis del genio maligno, necesita, para ser destruida, la demostración de la existencia de Dios. Sólo cuando sabemos que Dios existe y que Dios es incapaz de engañarnos, sólo entonces queda deshecha la última

Cogito, ergo sum

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Everything is self-evident.

His (Guénon's) motto was vincit omnia veritas, "Truth conquers all", but implicitly his motto was "Seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you". Implicit in his writings is the certainty that they will come providentially to those who are qualified to receive his message and they will impel them to seek and therefore to find a way.

Quand on est en possession d'une base stable et d'une direction sûre, on n'éprouve nul besoin de changement. [...]

One day enough work will have been done. Enough prayers will have been said. Enough confidence will have been formed. One day with effortless certainty your dreams will manifest into physical form; proving dreams really can come true

Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly doubtful nature of the whole edifice that I had subsequently based on them. I realized that it was necessary, once in the course of my life, to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations if I wanted to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last.

I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.

And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable.

And as for proof—how can a man ever be certain? Certainty, surely, is beyond human grasp. But however that may be, it is usually the case that glory comes to those who act, not to the over cautious and hesitant. Only by great risks can great results be achieved." —Herodotus, The Histories, book seven.

As sure as my name is Archie and not Archibald, I would have shot that goddamn orangutan dead in his tracks.