Certainty Quote by Edmond Jabes

The only certainty is uncertainty

— Pliny the Elder

Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.

— Ellen Langer

What can we say with certainty?

— Voltaire

The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.

— Ilya Prigogine

I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.

— Shekhar Kapur

Uncertainty is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom.

— Deepak Chopra

There has to be certainty and there has to be clarity. There can't be ambiguity, .. This has to be certain, clear in all…

— Tony Blair

If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.

— Stephen Covey

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

— Milton Glaser

In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being unsure.

— Christopher Hitchens

Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.

— Peter Elbow

The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns,…

— Stephen Batchelor