Certainty Quote by Giovanni Battista Beccaria

... moral certainty is certainty which is sufficient to regulate our behaviour, or which measures up to the certainty we have on matters relating…

— Rene Descartes

Moral certainty is intellectual immorality

— Kedar Joshi

Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Certainty in politics is never a given.

— Andrea Leadsom

“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is…

— H.L. Mencken

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

— Anonymous

Certainty is a cruel mindset.

— Ellen Langer

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

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

— Leon Blum

All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit…

— David Hume

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

— Ellen Langer

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

— Cassius Jackson Keyser