Certainty Quote by Ellen Langer Download Open image “Certainty is a cruel mindset.” — Ellen Langer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Certainty Inspirational Ironic Mindset
Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility. — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal. — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
Certainty is the enemy of mankind. If you're certain about everything, you have the Inquisition, you have Nazis and you have - that certainty… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
When you've been living in hope for a long time as I have, suddenly you realize that certainty is far more desirable than hope. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries. — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see. — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing the world,… — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
Once you've seen there is another perspective, you can never not see that there's another point of view. — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
There is always a step small enough from where we are to get us to where we want to be. If we take that… — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
“The same situation of stimulus called by a different name is a different stimulus. Roller coasters are fun but bumpy plane rides are not!” — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility. — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
When people are not in the moment, they're not there to know that they're not there. — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
Virtually all of life's ills boil down to mindlessness. If you can understand someone else's perspective, then there's no reason to be angry at… — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,… — Tom Robbins 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 weapon, is… — Colin Greenwood Copy Share Image
Every single person who is a member of our party deserves to have certainty. They deserve to know that my attention and focus is… — Annamie Paul Copy Share Image
The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they… — Sam Graves Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
Do not lose hope; St. Joseph also experienced moments of difficulty, but he never lost faith and was able to overcome them, in the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
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