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	Doubt and Certainty

abailart

10-10-2007 5:45 PM

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10-10-2007 6:06 PM

edgewalker

great quotes! one by Voltaire;
"Doubt is unpleasant but certainty is even absurd"

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        <P>To deny, to believe, and to doubt absolutely -- this is for man what running is for a horse.</P></BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_doubtuncertainty.html"><SPAN class="title"><A href="http://www.wisdomquotes.com/000483.html">Carl Sagan</A>:</SPAN>	
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        <P>It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish useful ideas from the worthless ones.  </P></BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_doubtuncertainty.html"><SPAN class="title"><A href="http://www.wisdomquotes.com/001504.html">Erich Fromm</A>:</SPAN>	
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        <P>Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.</P></BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_doubtuncertainty.html"><SPAN class="title"><A href="http://www.wisdomquotes.com/003156.html">Georg C. Lichtenberg</A>:</SPAN>	
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        <P>One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.</P></BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_doubtuncertainty.html"><SPAN class="title"><A href="http://www.wisdomquotes.com/002216.html">Pierre Abelard</A>:</SPAN>	
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