If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.
When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.
If we say yes to something we believe is wrong now, what guarantee is there that the wrong will not be further exacerbated down the line?
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.
The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.