Doubt Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

— Ellen Langer

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

— Shekhar Kapur

We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion

— John Bradshaw

“Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life– gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life. To be certain of God means that…

— oswald chambers

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 human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first…

— John Ortberg

Certainty is a cruel mindset.

— Ellen Langer

The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.

— Carl Jung

“A feeling of subjective certainty does not guarantee irrefutable certainty. It is not the certainty, but the truth in the certainty that makes us…

— G.C. Berkouwer

The longing of the mind is to be extraordinary. The ego thirsts and hungers for the recognition that you are somebody. Somebody achieves that…

— Rajneesh

Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more…

— Ellen Glasgow