155 quotes found
“There is one thing certain namely that we can have nothing certain therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain.”
“We live in an epoch in which the solid ground of our preconceived ideas shakes daily under our certain feet.”
“All business proceeds on beliefs or judgment of probabilities and not on certainties.”
“Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.”
“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!”
“The demand is for certainty is a sign of weakness.”
“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...”
“We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.”
“You are all you will ever have for certain.”
“Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers.”
“Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so.”
“When nothing is sure everything is possible.”
“A reasonable probability is the only certainty.”
“Doubt is not a pleasant state but certainty is a ridiculous one.”
“He who forecasts all perils will never sail the sea.”
“There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.”
“One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of shore for a very long time.”
“To teach how to live with uncertainty yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.”
