Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
SecurityAuthorityFaithCertaintyComfort We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
CertaintyHuman NatureIntellectVice The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
CertaintyReligionUncertaintyCourageFaith If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
TruthPredictionConsequenceSufferingCertainty The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
RightnessWrongnessCertainty Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
CertaintyPhilosophyKnowledgeIgnorance Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
MathematicsRealityCertaintyUncertaintyEpistemology As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
BeliefDoubtHumilityCertaintyOpen-Mindedness I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
