“If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.”
Francis Bacon
“Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.”
Voltaire
“Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about ~where~ we shall land, but rather on the belief that we ~shall~ land.”
Carter Heyward
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.”
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd”
“Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity...”
Vaclav Havel
“Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.”
Thomas S. Szasz
