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Letter "C" » certainty
«Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.»
«To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.»
«When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Dreams,
Life
| Keywords:
carefully, certainty, property, separates, The Dream, waking
«What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.»
«The present is the only reality and the only certainty.»
«The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Uncertainty
| Keywords:
blocks, certainty, impel, impelling, impels, quest, quest after, quest for, The Quest, The Search, uncertainty, unfold
«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.»
Author: Peter F. Drucker
(Educator, Writer)
| Keywords:
be born, certainty, industries, in all probability, probability, The Industry, The New
«The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.»
Author: Seneca
| Keywords:
certainty, chance upon, delay, depend upon, expectation, Great Expectations, let go, relinquish, relinquished, relinquishing, uncertainty
«The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
afflicted, certainty, cut out, forgets, impotence, listened, occasionally, perceives, sink
«One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.»
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