Quotes
| “ | Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. | ” |
| — Voltaire |
| “ | In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. | ” |
| — Benjamin Franklin |
| “ | There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life. | ” |
| — John Stuart Mill |
| “ | If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty. | ” |
| — Ludwig Wittgenstein #115 from On Certainty |
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“A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good. What he quotes, he fills with his own voice and humour, and the whole cyclopedia of his table-talk is presently believed to be his own.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Young people of high school age can actually feel themselves changing. Progress is almost tangible. It’s exciting. It stimulates more progress. Nevertheless, growth is not constant and smooth. Erik Erikson quotes an aphorism to describe the formless forming of it. “I ain’t what I ought to be. I ain’t what I’m going to be, but I’m not what I was.””
—Stella Chess (20th century)
“Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say “I think,” “I am,” but quotes some saint or sage.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)