Certain Knowledge Quotes

• We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, Osama Bin Laden, Certain

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• Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

  Charles Darwin

  Positive, Confidence, Ignorance

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.33, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Confidence, Atheist

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.6343, Delphi Classics

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• I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.

  Albert Einstein

  Faith, Believe, Inspiration

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.435, Princeton University Press

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• If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

  The Advancement of Learning bk. 1, ch. 5, sec. 8 (1605)

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• Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.

  Confucius

  Education, Homeschooling, Educational

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• The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Motivational, God

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.49, Broadway Books

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• The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

  Frank Herbert

  Knowledge, Caring, Discovery

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.150, Penguin

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• I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, Change, Education

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned.

  Jon Kyl

  Military, Marine, Soldier

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• To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it is useless to offer the most certain knowledge of the laws of numbers and the arrangement of the universe

  Etienne Gilson

  Law, Numbers, Mind

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• Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken

  Philip Wylie

  Done, Doers, Has Beens

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• Every cell has certain knowledge. I think knowledge is contained within the genetics, even. I think scientists will find that. I don't think there's a gay gene, though. They may argue that down, but I don't think that, because that's a preference.

  RZA

  Gay, Thinking, Cells

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our persuasions.

  John Locke

  Opinion, Persuasion, Worthwhile

  John Locke (1996). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.5, Hackett Publishing

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• Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts through the Holy Spirit.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Promise, Mind

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.380, Oxford University Press

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• Success is not something that can be measured or worn on a watch or hung on a wall. It is not the esteem of colleagues, or the admiration of the community, or the appreciation of patients. Success is the certain knowledge that you have become yourself, the person you will meant to be from all time. That should be reward enough.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Appreciation, Wall, Community

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• What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Doe, World

  "Public Opinion". Book by Walter Lippmann, 1922.

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• Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them. This is our true state; this is what makes us incapable of certain knowledge and of absolute ignorance... This is our natural condition, and yet most contrary to our inclination; we burn with desire to find solid ground and an ultimate sure foundation whereon to build a tower reaching to the Infinite. But our whole groundwork cracks, and the earth opens to abysses.

  Blaise Pascal

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Desire

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, (Ch. 72), 1669.

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• In some subsequent episodes, certain individuals have certain knowledge of certain events that they wouldn't have, if they didn't have access to the future.

  Andrew Kreisberg

  Events, Individual, Episodes

  Source: collider.com

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• In real science a hypothesis can never be proved true...A science which confines itself to correlating phenomena can never learn anything about the reality underlying the phenomena, while a science which goes further than this and introduces hypotheses about reality, can never acquire certain knowledge of a positive kind about reality; in whatever way we proceed, this is forever denied us.

  James Jeans

  Real, Forever, Way

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• Computerization brings about an essential change in the way the worker can know the world and, with it, a crisis of confidence inthe possibility of certain knowledge.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Work, Knowledge, Essentials

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• I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge.

  Rene Descartes

  Atheism, Example, Belief

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• Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released.

  Ralph Steadman

  Greatness, Source, Certain

  "The Joke's Over". Book by Ralph Steadman, 2006.

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• Certain knowledge of what to fight for, and what to fight against, gives meaning to life and provides its own version of discipline: never give up. That kind of meaning is illusory, I now believe, and blinkered. Fealty to a mystical absolute is a formula for disaster, especially in transformative times.

  Stewart Brand

  Giving Up, Believe, Fighting

  Stewart Brand (2010). “Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary”, p.223, Penguin

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• You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want some one made of sterner stuff. You want, as it were, a sparring-partner, some one with whom you can quarrel happily with the certain knowledge that he will not curl up in a ball for you to kick, but will be there with the return wallop.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Sparring Partner, Curls, Would Be

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “Piccadilly Jim: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.405, ReadHowYouWant.com

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