"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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"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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"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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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."

Thomas Szasz, American Psychologist

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"Inquiry is fatal to certainty."

Will Durant, American Historian

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"It's already figured out."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise."

David Hume, Scottish Philosopher

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

George Eliot, British Author

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"I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion."

Phil Donahue, American Entertainer

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"Nothing consoles and comforts like certainty does."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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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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"We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information."

Peter Drucker, American Businessman

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"Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation."

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"Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us."

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"Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war."

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"One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human."

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"It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man."

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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."

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