(327 quotes found)
“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.”
Vincent van Gogh
“Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.”
Voltaire
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.”
“The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.”
Carlos Castaneda
“To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.”
King Stanislaus of Poland
“It seems to me a certainty that the fatalistic teachings of Mohammed and the utter degradation of the Arab women are the outstanding causes for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have been developing.”
General George S. Patton
“The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice”
Bertrand Russell
“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts: but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.”
“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
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