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Inquiry is fatal to certainty. - Will Durant

Inquiry is fatal to certainty. – Will Durant

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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say. – Will Durant

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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries. – Will Durant

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It may be true that you cant fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country. – Will Durant

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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. – Thomas Carlyle

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We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously. – Albert Camus

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When men are the most sure and arrogant they are commonly the most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation and suspense which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities. – David Hume

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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing. – Robert Burns

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