Certainty Quote by Kedar Joshi

“Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessary condition for knowledge.”

— Kedar Joshi

Because of its concrete content, sense-certainty immediately appears as the richest kind of knowledge, indeed a knowledge of infinite wealth for which no bounds…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

— Cassius Jackson Keyser

“In order to determine whether we can know anything with certainty, we first have to doubt everything we know”

— Anonymous

Knowledge breeds doubt, not certainty, And the more we know the more uncertain we become.

— A. J. P. Taylor

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

— Charles Darwin

The only certainty is uncertainty

— Pliny the Elder

Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.

— Isaac Asimov

If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer

— Ajahn Chah

Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.

— Samuel Johnson

To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning.

— Tom Spanbauer

Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.

— Walker Percy