Certainty Quote by Peter Elbow

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

— Ellen Langer

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

The only certainty is uncertainty

— Pliny the Elder

Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the…

— Carl Sagan

Those who are full of certainty are usually wrong.

— Nick Boles

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

Certainty is a cruel mindset.

— Ellen Langer

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

— Cassius Jackson Keyser

If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.

— Joe Biden

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

— A. J. P. Taylor

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

— Benjamin Franklin

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken…

— Joseph Glanvill