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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

~ Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon Advice Certainty Life

I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake—after a wrong guess.

~ Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman Affection Certainty Doubt Evidence Guess Humble Ideas Life Mistake Science Scientific Skepticism Surrender Thought

I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Above And Beyond Assurance Certainty Concealment Confidence Foolishness Humility Intelligence Philosophy Pretentiousness Profound Self Assurance Theory Within

To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe he's too great to stay compressed in the human mind. Maybe he splits it wide open; this is why pretentious intellectualism so often fails to comprehend the concept of God: it is only accepting of what it can explain while in the process finding higher sources offensive. What we may confidently assert is that faith is the opening that allows God, this unpredictable, unseen power, to travel in and out of the mind without all the pains of confusion.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Apologetics Certainty Comprehension Confusion Doubt Faith God Human Humility Knowing Not Knowing Pain Philosophy Pretentiousness Pride Spirituality Theology Truth Uncertainty Understanding Wisdom

It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Arguing Arguments Bigot Bigotry Bigots Certainty Close Mindedness Conviction Honesty Intolerance Narrow Mindedness Open Mindedness Passion Philosophy Politics Religion Subject Subject Matter Theology Tolerance Truth Worth

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Certainty Contradiction Development Discipline Freedom Hypocrisy Justification Learning Productivity Progress Proof Right Self Denial Truth Uncertainty

It is debatable whether blind faith is truly faith at all. Faith is the perceptive gray area where scientific facts meet an individual's experiential truths - the extreme of the former is left feeling in the dark whereas the latter is caught blinded by the light. By proper scientific method, it is intellectually dishonest for me to declare the existence of God with utmost certainty, but to my individual spirit, I would be intellectually dishonest to deny the existence of God even for a second. This leaves the best of both worlds, as the believer is called to be able to give reasons for his faith, a deviation from mere fantasy.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Agnosticism Apologetics Blind Faith Certainty Debates Doubt Evidence Facts Faith Falsehood God Honesty Insight Learning Logic Reason Reasonable Faith Spiritual Theism Truth Uncertainty

In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Apologetics Certainty Faith God Gospel Honesty Intelligence Knowledge Lies Perspective Teaching Truth Uncertainty Wisdom

No one knows for sure about the future. But if you feel reluctant to plan something about it, then someone with guts would define it for you.

~ Toba Beta

Toba Beta Brave Certainty Define Definition Future Guts Life Reluctant Truth

It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a higher standard than those you judge. Enforcing rules, especially in its more subtle expressions like responsibility and expectation, is a vain attempt to create certainly out of uncertainty. And contrary to what you might think, I have a great fondness for uncertainty. Rules cannot bring freedom; they only have the power to accuse.

~ William Paul Young

William Paul Young Certainty Control Control Freaks God Law Law And Gospel Ocd Rules Spirit Uncertainty

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

~ Robert Burns

Robert Burns Certainty Cockiness Ignorance Knowledge Wisdom

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

~ Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell Certainty Doubt Fanatics Fools Wisdom

Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Battles Calm Certainty Conflict Controversy Conviction Disputes Doubt Faith Fighting Insecurity Logic Morality Patience Peace Security Uncertainty War Wisdom

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

~ Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo Certainty Knowledge Science Wisdom

I know that I do not know, and uncertainty, certainly, is the cruelest of words.

~ Auliq Ice

Auliq Ice Certainty Ignorance Uncertainties Uncertainties In Life Uncertainty Quotes Wisdom Words Of Wisdom

The devil's happy when the critics run you off.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Boldness Certainty Confidence Cowardice Criticism Critics Determination Devil Fear Happiness Happy Judgment Perseverance Persistence Ridicule Satan Scrutiny Standing Your Ground Uplifting

Having friends was weird . . . but in a good way.

~ Gwenda Bond

Gwenda Bond Certainty Friendship Goodness Gwenda Bond Happiness Inspiration Lois Lane Triple Threat Weirdness

How do you ever hold on to anybody?

~ Elizabeth Wein

Elizabeth Wein Affection Certainty Elizabeth Wein Holding On To Something Romance The Pearl Thief

Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence.

~ Elizabeth Wein

Elizabeth Wein Affection Certainty Elizabeth Wein Ellen Mcewen Julie Romance Silence Smoking Stars The Pearl Thief

My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises and falls. But that's it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I'd loved and been loved, but I had nothing to show. It was a singularly plain, featureless landscape. I felt like I was in a video game. A surrogate Pacman, crunching blindly through a labyrinth of dotted lines. The only certainty was my death.

~ Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami Certainty Death Falling Featureless Labyrinth Nothing Pacman Peak Peaks Ripples Rising Video Games

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.

~ Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Certainty Faith Intuition

When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Apology Apology And Attitude Attitude Belief Certainty Confidence Conviction Definition Faith Faithfulness Humility Perseverance Persistence Pride Regret Regrets Willpower

Doubter wants proof which contributes nothing to her faith.

~ Toba Beta

Toba Beta Certainty Doubters Faith Need

He who asserts belief with absolute certainty knows nothing of faith and makes himself into a fool. He who is wise, upon realizing they have done this, recants and searches themselves for further enlightenment.

~ Cristina Marrero

Cristina Marrero A Rambling Wanderer S Tale Certainty Cristina Marrero Faith Knowledge Spirituality The River The Unsung Love Story

The South African artist William Kentridge speaks to this type of certainty: 'To say that one needs art, or politics, that incorporate ambiguity and contradiction is not to say that one then stops recognizing and condemning things as evil. However, it might stop one being so utterly convinced of the certainty of one's own solutions. There needs to be a strong understanding of fallibility and how the very act of certainty or authoritativeness can bring disasters.'The outcome of the current crisis is already determined.

~ Nick Flynn

Nick Flynn 131 Certainty Faith

The opposite of faith isn’t doubt. The opposite of faith is certainty.

~ Claudia Gray

Claudia Gray Certainty Faith Truth

From the house of unbeliefto true religionis a single breath;From the world of doubtto certaintyis a single breath;Enjoy this precious single breath,for the harvestof our whole livesis that same one breath.

~ Omar Khayyám

Omar Khayyám Belief Certainty Doubt Lifetime Lives Religion Unbelief

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

~ Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin Certainty Ignorance Knowledge Open Mindedness Science Willful Ignorance

If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.

~ Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett Certainty Direction Knowledge Self Assurance

I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.

~ Christiaan Huygens

Christiaan Huygens Certainty Doubt Knowledge Probability Skepticism Understanding

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessarycondition for knowledge.

~ Kedar Joshi

Kedar Joshi Certainty Epistemology Ignorance Knowledge

So the paradox goes: No man who is really ignorant is ever aware that he is ignorant. That is its finest, most faulty manifestation; there can be no true ignorance without first some claim of intelligence or consciousness, or superiority or enlightenment.

~ Criss Jami

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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.

~ Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon Certainty Knowledge Mathematics Planksip Truth

It sometimes requires ignorance and arrogance to know something for sure.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Because you're always learning, the chief lesson remains: you still know nothing.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Business Certainty Chief Confidence Development Ego Evolution Facts Growth Humility Information Insecurity Inspirational Intelligence Knowing Knowledge Learn Learning Lesson Motivational Not Knowing Philosophy Preach Pride Science Security Success Teach Truth Uncertainty Wisdom

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 is very often provisional and that we cannot wait to have certainty about every fact before we act.

~ Dan Smith

Dan Smith Certainty Discernment Facts Knowledge Knowledge Compared To Wisdom Philosophy Of Knowledge Philosophy Quotes Social Intelligence Taking Action Widom Compared To Knowledge Will To Act Wisdom Quotes

You’ve got to be sure of yourself beforeYou can ever win a prize.

~ Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill Certainty Confidence Inspirational Self Esteem Success Winning

Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.

~ Jeffrey Fry

Jeffrey Fry Being Able Certainty Come Live With Success Uncertainty

When nothing is certain in your life, you have a blank canvas to work with. You can determine a new future for yourself with passionate actions. You can pursue anything that you put your mind to. When things seem uncertain it is the best time to take action.

~ Avina Celeste

Avina Celeste Action Certainty Inspirational Motivational

We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state that is to follow. An intelligence knowing all the forces acting in nature at a given instant, as well as the momentary positions of all things in the universe, would be able to comprehend in one single formula the motions of the largest bodies as well as the lightest atoms in the world, provided that its intellect were sufficiently powerful to subject all data to analysis; to it nothing would be uncertain, the future as well as the past would be present to its eyes. The perfection that the human mind has been able to give to astronomy affords but a feeble outline of such an intelligence.

~ Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace Analysis Astronomy Certainty Comprehension Data Determinism Eyes Formula Free Will Human Mind Intelligence Lack Of Free Will Mind Motion Naturalism Nature Omniscience Past Perfection Physics Present Science Space Time Universe
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