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If we begin
with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin
with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in
certainties.
-- Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British
Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
If a man will
begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he
will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in
certainties.
-- Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British
Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
To be
positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
-- Ambrose Bierce
1842-1914, American Author,
Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''
I have lived
in this world just long enough to look carefully the second
time into things that I am the most certain of the first
time.
-- Josh Billings
1815-1885, American Humorist,
Lecturer
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There is
nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.
-- Scotty Bowman
American Hockey Coach
We delight in
one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable;
in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be
apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all
in the one which is itself the all.
-- Giordano Bruno
1548-1600, Italian
Philosopher, Scientist
There is no
such uncertainty as a sure thing.
-- Robert Burns
1759-1796, Scottish Poet
We are not
certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach
some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us
seriously.
-- Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential
Writer
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