Certainty
CERTAINTY:
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
CERTAINTY:
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
CERTAINTY:
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant.
CERTAINTY:
We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.
CERTAINTY:
There is one thing certain, namely, that we can have nothing certain; therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain.
CERTAINTY:
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
CERTAINTY:
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant.
CERTAINTY:
Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.
CERTAINTY:
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
CERTAINTY:
Only the closed mind is certain.