"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."

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"Inquiry is fatal to certainty."

Will Durant, American Historian

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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."

Alan Bullock, British Historian

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"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

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"I would say that without any doubt he's the killer - the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty which I - there's no question that he was the killer of President Kennedy."

Henry Wade, American Lawyer

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"Nothing consoles and comforts like certainty does."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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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

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"When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty."

Charles Evans Hughes, American Judge

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"If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach."

William Barclay, Scottish Theologian

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"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."

Rem Koolhaas, Dutch Architect

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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

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"Inquiry is fatal to certainty."

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

"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."

"I would say that without any doubt he's the killer - the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty which I - there's no question that he was the killer of President Kennedy."

"Nothing consoles and comforts like certainty does."

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

"When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty."

"If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach."

"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."

"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."

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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."

"The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year."

"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

"The punishment of criminals should be of use when a man is hanged he is good for nothing."

"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."

"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."