Confidence Quote by Brian Christian

Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient…

— John Stuart Mill

Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.

— Cassius Jackson Keyser

“The only certainty in life is that it is uncertain.”

— Charles F. Glassman

“As if the uncertainty is an absolute certainty.”

— Faizan Ahmad Zargar

“All certainty that comes after the 'original sin' of dismantling the matter-of-fact world full of routine and short of reflection must be a manufactured…

— Zygmunt Bauman

What can we say with certainty?

— Voltaire

The only certainty is uncertainty

— Pliny the Elder

“Uncertainty is the only certainty in this world.”

— Andrew Gross

“A feeling of subjective certainty does not guarantee irrefutable certainty. It is not the certainty, but the truth in the certainty that makes us…

— G.C. Berkouwer

“Better to live in doubt than to die in certainty.”

— Ira Levin

“Humans may crave absolute certainty; they may aspire to it; they may pretend, as partisans of certain religions do, to have attained it. But…

— Carl Sagan

“In fact, certainty exists in very different modes. The kind of certainty afforded by a verification that has passed through doubt is different from…

— Hans-Georg Gadamer