Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death. — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“...but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility. — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
“I know that I do not know, and uncertainty, certainly, is the cruelest of words.” — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
A man can reach into anything and turn it to his cause. It's not want, or desire, just certainty. Only be assured… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
In essence we have become addicted to the certainty, sureness or sense of security that our faith provides — Leo Booth Copy Share Image
In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Knowledge breeds doubt, not certainty, And the more we know the more uncertain we become. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
Dialogue starts with the willingness to challenge our own thinking, to recognize that any certainty we have is, at best, a hypothesis… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
“All I know is that I'd rather face uncertainty with you than all the certainty in the world with someone else.” — Aimee Carson Copy Share Image
All speech should be presumed to be protected by the Constitution, and a heavy burden should be placed on those who would… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Subatomic particles do not exist but rather show 'tendencies to exist', and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
What has the Cross left in each of us? You see, it gives us a treasure that no one else can give:… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A geometrical theory in physical interpretation can never be validated with mathematical certainty ... ; like any other theory of empirical science,… — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
We know with certainty that the Obama administration has re-defined 'militants' to include any military-age males they kill regardless of whether they… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Learn to live without self concern. For this you must know your own true being as indomitable, fearless and ever victorious. Once… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
As a general rule it's not good to jump onto too much analysis of an election 24 hours after people have cast… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
It's strange, isn't it, how the idea of belonging to someone can sound so great? It can be comforting, the way it… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of… — Colin Greenwood Copy Share Image
The term ignorant is indeed perhaps an overstatement, implying as it does that something is known somewhere, whereas in reality we are… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“Gradually I began to understand that it does not matter very much what problem, whether big or small, is tormenting us; the… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of… — Pierre Simon de Laplace Copy Share Image
So the journey is over and I am back again where I started, richer by much experience and poorer by many unexploded… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
See that unfortunate soldier who is falling hurt to death ("tombe blessé à...", Fr.) on the battlefield; he learns that his folks… — African Spir Copy Share Image
I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
There are no means of attaining faith and certainty except through the Qur'an. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
People always tell me with absolute certainty that they don't trust themselves. — Richard Bandler Copy Share Image
“The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.” — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
