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“While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or of ignorance. Knowledge is not so precise a concept as is commonly thought. Instead of saying 'I know this', we ought to say 'I more or less know something more or less like this'. ... Knowledge in practical affairs has not the certainty or the precision of arithmetic.”

Knows Should Philosophy Science Certain Knowledge Knowing Ignorance Ought Concepts Affair Practicals Certainty Useless Not Knowing Precise Precision Arithmetic Sceptic

Author:Bertrand Russell

“You are never to lose sight of nature; the instant you do, you are all abroad, at the mercy of every gust of fashion, without knowing or seeing the point to which you ought to steer.”

Loses Knowing Seeing Fashion Ought Mercy Sight Instant Steers

Book:The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Source: The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds

“When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.”

Thinking Men Money Millions Knowing Ought Fellows Specialty

Book:Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

Source: Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

“I vote because it's what small-d democracy is about. Because there are places where people fight for generations and stand for hours to cast a ballot knowing what we ought to remember: that it makes a difference. Not always a big difference. Not always an immediate difference. But a difference.”

People Bigs Remember Fighting Hours Differences Knowing Democracy Generations Ought Vote Casts Making A Difference Ballots

Author:Ellen Goodman

“A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.”

Source: The Prince

“Your Letters concerning Miss N. have given me as much Concern as they ought-not knowing the Character nor what to advise, but feeling all a Fathers Tenderness, longing to be at home that I might enquire and consider and take the Care I ought.”

Character Feelings Home Might Care Father Given Family Knowing Missing Ought Concern Letters Longing Tenderness Not Knowing Advise

Author:John Adams

“Knowing more about the public effects his work will have, the engineer ought to consider himself an "officer of the court" and keep the general interest always in mind.”

Mind Interest Knowing Effects Ought Court Officers Engineers Knowing More

Book:Education and Freedom

Source: Education and Freedom

“The discovery of God begins at understanding that He ought to exist, and ends at knowing how He could exist.”

Ends Understanding Knowing Ought Discovery

Author:Kedar Joshi