If the opposite of certainty is doubt, humility must lie…

“The system wants to own your day until the day you die. The opposite of certainty in life is called freedom. If you want…

— Richie Norton

[I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge…

— Roger Bacon

“In order to determine whether we can know anything with certainty, we first have to doubt everything we know”

— Anonymous

“The opposite of certainty in life is called freedom. If you want to be free, you must be willing to advance your life into…

— Richie Norton

“Faith, doubt, humility, and confidence—this is the stuff and substance of theology at its best. Swagger, smugness, and certainty—this is the stuff and substance…

— Austin Fischer

I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards -- When I find him to be envious,…

— Anthony Trollope

Humility is the only virtue that no devil can imitate. If pride made demons out of angels, there is no doubt that humility could…

— John Climacus

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundation of knowledge…

— Roger Bacon

“They say "doubt everything," but I disagree. Doubt is useful in small amounts, but too much of it leads to apathy and confusion. No,…

— Tom Jubert / Jonas Kyratzes

I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.

— Phil Donahue

“I don’t know,” [my father] said, after clearing his throat. “But I know that he loves you.” . . . Twenty years later, I’m…

— Rachel Held Evans

In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.

— Cesare Pavese

The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written…

— Paulo Coelho

Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't…

— Hubert Selby, Jr

A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional…

— Cyril Norman Hinshelwood