Grant Bowler Quotes

I always admired Niels Bohr for uttering his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one in the possession of definite truth.

We are all seekers in some way. There are those of us who think they have all the answers and there are those of us who may never get an answer.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

Ignorance never settles a question.

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that are not so

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points.

'Belief' means something that you do not know. You want to assume and bring a certainty to something that you do not know. That means you are concretising your ignorance. There is no need to believe anything.

I say this all the time: All I know is I know nothing at all.

The clear and perfect truth no man has seen, nor will there be anyone who knows about the gods and what I say about all things...; for, however perfect what he says may be, yet he does not know it; all things are matters of opinion.

He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.

No one knows anything for sure.

I don't know anything and neither do you.

We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss.

What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.

What is truth? I don't know and I'm sorry I brought it up.

Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.

Which country is real, mine or the teacher's? My wish is that we might progressively lose our confidence in what we think we believe and the things we consider stable and secure, in order to remind ourselves of the infinite number of things still waiting to be discovered.