Certainty Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Immanuel Wallerstein

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

Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.

— Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

— Erich Fromm

A man must know his destiny. if he does not recognize it, then he is lost.

— George S. Patton

A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

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

— Ajahn Chah

“...the absence of certainty does not mean that one interpretation is as valid as any other. Probabilities and plausibilities matter; and when the evidence…

— Mary Lefkowitz

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

— Benjamin Franklin

“All certainty that comes after the 'original sin' of dismantling the matter-of-fact world full of routine and short of reflection must be a manufactured…

— Zygmunt Bauman

“The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are not trained…

— Bertrand Russell