Decision making Quote by Todd Kashdan

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

I think we may very well, in many areas, get likelihood, but not certitude. We don't want certitude anyway, do we?

— Frank Moore Cross

Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for…

— Robert Anton Wilson

“We live in an age where virtually no content is lost and virtually all content is shared. The sheer amount of information about every…

— Chuck Klosterman

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

— Milton Glaser

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

— Anonymous

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Seeking to know is too often learning to doubt

— Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulieres

“once we invest trust in a particular source of knowledge, we're less likely to scrutinize information from that source in the future.”

— David DiSalvo

We want to have certainties and no doubts- results and no experiments- without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt and results…

— Carl Jung

The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt. Precisely because we keep questioning everything, especially our own premises, we…

— Carlo Rovelli

“The human tendency toward confirmatory thinking - all of us are bias to seek information that fits what we already believe.”

— Valerie Tarico