Certainty Quote by Ellen Langer Download Open image “Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.” — Ellen Langer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Certainty Growth Mind Mindset Possibility Psychology Wise
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
Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt. — Milton Glaser Copy Share Image
We never have 100 percent certainty. We never have it. If you wait until you have 100 percent certainty, something bad is going to… — Gordon R. Sullivan Copy Share Image
A lot of people hear me attacking their certainty. I don't have any interest in doing that. I'm interested in penetrating the meaning of… — John Shelby Spong 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
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
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
In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves. — 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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