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Proof and Certainty Quotes and Quotations

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

- Erich Fromm

There are no facts, only interpretations.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Statistics are no substitute for judgement.

- Henry Clay

Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.

- Mark Twain

'For example' is not proof.

- Jewish proverb

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

- Stephen Leacock

You are all you will ever have for certain,.

- June Havoc

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is.

- Voltaire

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.

- Stanislaus, King of Poland

Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise.

- William Shakespeare

What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.

- Bertrand Russell