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Quotes About Certainty

En Dios Confiamos; Todos Los Otros Traen Datos.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that it exists. All my knowledge ends at this point. The rest is hypothesis.
~ Albert Camus
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
~ Richard P. Feynman
It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
~ Ayn Rand
The more certain our knowledge the less we know.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
In an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty, the one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge.
~ Ikujiro Nonaka
A scientific approach means knowing what one knows and what one doesn't. Absolute or complete knowledge is unscientific.
~ Karl Jaspers
The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.
~ Charles Hodge
Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.
~ Kedar Joshi
There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.
~ Jacob Bronowski
Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them.
~ Robert Recorde
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.
~ Joseph Campbell
There is only the constant knowledge and enjoyment of the Heart, moment to moment, through the instant of all conditions of appearance and disappearance. Of this I am perfectly certain. I am That.
~ Adi Da
I do not believe...I know.
~ Carl Jung
There are times I think I am not sure of something which I absolutely know.
~ Mongkut, King of Siam
Knowledge does away with darkness, suspense, and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is . . . In knowledge there is power.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered.
~ Nathaniel Branden
One's knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.
~ John Maynard Keynes
Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
~ Frank Herbert
Knowledge does away with darkness, [anxiety], and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf