Quote#Wisdom
Though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no…
Quote byJoseph Glanvill · 1636–1680
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Essays on Several Important Subjects (1676), No. 2 — "Of Scepticism and Certainty".
English (original)
Though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility; there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.
— Joseph Glanvill
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The knowledge we have of the Mathematicks, hath no reason to elate us; since by them we know but numbers, and figures, creatures of our own, and are yet ignorant of our Maker's.
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Time as a River, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial; while things more solid and substantial have been immersed.