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To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice. ~ Ambrose Bierce
To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me. ~ John Wesley
When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.~ Sir Francis Bacon
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.
In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain.~ Pliny the Elder
In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain.
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!~ George Meredith
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
