(327 quotes found)
“To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without, being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can do for those who study it”
Bertrand Russell
“Doubt cannot override a certainty”
The Talmud
“More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity”
Francois Gautier
“We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions - love, antipathy, charity, or malice - and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals.”
Milan Kundera
“From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.”
Tom Stoppard
“If the issue is, is it a near certainty that at some time in the future there will some group, probably a terrorist group, that attempts to bring to bear either the use or the threat of a chemical or biological operation, I would say that is highly likely to happen sometime in the next few years.”
Bill Clinton
“If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.”
William Lyon Phelps
“He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty”
Samuel Johnson
“To believe with certainty, we must begin by doubting”
Polish Proverb
“Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.”
Karl von Clausewitz
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