There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty,and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.
What men really want is not knowledge but certainty.
In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity.
Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . .
Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.
Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that human knowledge is fallible, we realize also that we can never be completely certain that we have not made a mistake.
Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.
The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong.
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.
We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.
The truth that I know for sure is that I may have an opinion, but I do not know the truth, and the other thing I know for sure is that certainty is the root of all ignorance and the root of all evil.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.
Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.
Moral certainty is intellectual immorality
I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered something Father Tom had told me--that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
I'm for open-mindedness and tolerance. I'm against any form of fanaticism, fundamentalism or zealotry, and this certainty of 'We have the truth.' The truth is far too large and complex. Nobody has the truth.
There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.
I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.
The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.
I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.
In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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