"It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all."

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"It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all."

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"Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive."

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"Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor."

John Woolman, American Clergyman

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"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty."

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"Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions."

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"To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting."

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"Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle."

Hannah Arendt, German Historian

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"A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations."

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"The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law."

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