The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
We are not certain we are never certain.
All business proceeds on beliefs or judgment of probabilities and not on certainties.
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides never decides.
There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
Ah what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but wh...
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
You are all you will ever have for certain.
Doubt is not a pleasant state but certainty is a ridiculous one.
Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never hav...
Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man by necessity uncertain.
We sail within a vast sphere ever drifting in uncertainty driven from end to end.
There is nothing certain about war except that one side won't win.
There is only one thing about which I am certain and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
I'm often wrong but never in doubt.
There is one thing certain namely that we can have nothing certain therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain.
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