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“I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.”
“Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessarycondition for knowledge.”
“People too often tolerate uncertainty prior to taking action; worse, some people believe that omniscience or infallibility are prerequisites for being certain, so they conclude that certainty (and ...”
“Through positive thinking and related approaches, we seek the safety and solid ground of certainty, of knowing how the future will turn out, of a time in the future when we'll be ceaselessly happy ...”
“If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics.”
“Knowledge is not the same as wisdom. You can know all the facts and still not be able to act wisely. But without knowledge, it is harder to be wise even if what wisdom tells us is that knowledge i...”
“Youve got to be sure of yourself beforeYou can ever win a prize.”
“As we watch the process in which the soul becomes thought or speech, we notice that many a time we ease ourselves into convenient clichs that have little of the new insight in them. Once more we ar...”
“Roark spoke quietly. He was the only man in the room who felt certain of his own words.”
“One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.”
“In a race between danger and indecision, the difference between life and death comes down to confidence. Faith in our abilities, certainty in ourselves and the trust we put in others.”
“When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in darkness. Don't expect faith to clear thing...”
“...but the loss of a memory, like the omission of a phrase during reading, rather than making for uncertainty, can lead to a premature certainty.”
“I remember, in no particular order:a shiny inner wrist;steam rising from a wet sink as a hot frying pan is laughingly tossed into it;gouts of sperm circling a plughole, before being sluiced down th...”
“She had been too well-trained to allow her emotions to take control of her at the time, but the feelings were too strong to quietly recede into a regimen of critical thought. Deep inside her they s...”
“I'm comfortable with the unknown -- that's the point of science. There are places out there, billions of places out there, that we know nothing about. And the fact that we know nothing about them e...”
“Uncertainty is the certainity of life!”
“Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that ensures justice and historical momentum in an imperfect world, beca...”
“If imagination is what enables us to conceive of and enjoy stories other than our own, and if empathy is the act of taking other peoples stories seriously, certainty deadens or destroys both qualit...”
“Curiosity is a worthwhile virtue than certainty. While the former leads to grow, the latter muzzles your growth and results in stagnation...”
