"Inquiry is fatal to certainty."

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"When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone."

Loren Eiseley, American Scientist

Certainty, Light, Man, May

"Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode."

Nelson A. Miles, American Soldier

Certainty, Race

"Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things."

Denis Diderot, French Editor

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"We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface."

Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish Scientist

Certainty, Earth

"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer

Certainty, Man, Woman

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

Stanislaus I, Polish Royalty

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"I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance."

Richard Dreyfuss, American Actor

Certainty, Ignorance, Living

"I am certain there is too much certainty in the world."

Michael Crichton, American Author

Certainty, World

"The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture."

Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian Author

Certainty, Judgment, Order, Scripture

"Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent."

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"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."

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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."

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"Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity."

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"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."

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"When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone."

"Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode."

"Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things."

"We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface."

"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."

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

"I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance."

"I am certain there is too much certainty in the world."

"The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture."

"Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so."

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"Education is the transmission of civilization."

"As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy."

"Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent."

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."

"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."

"Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity."

"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."

"History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice."

"Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn."

"Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions."