155 quotes found
“Doubt is not a pleasant state but certainty is a ridiculous one.”
“To be absolutely certain about something one must know everything or nothing about it.”
“We sail within a vast sphere ever drifting in uncertainty driven from end to end.”
“Something must be left to chance nothing is sure in a sea fight.”
“There is only one thing about which I am certain and this is that there is very little about which one can be 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.”
“Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.”
“When nothing is sure everything is possible.”
“To teach how to live with uncertainty yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.”
“If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties it may be too late.”
“The successful man is he who when he sees that no further certainty is attainable promptly decides on the most probable side as if he were completely sure it was right.”
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched-they must be felt with the heart.”
“To end with certainty we must begin with doubting.”
“In the face of uncertainty there is nothing wrong with hope.”
“Faith hasn't got no eyes but she's long-legged.”
“If a man will begin with certainties he shall end in doubts but if he will content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.”
“I said here's the river I want to flow on here's the direction I want to go and put my boat in. I was ready for the river to take unexpected turns and present obstacles.”
“Every time I think that I'm getting old and gradually going to the grave something else happens.”
“I think I look good out there. I'm strong powerful and artistic. But I have my doubts as much as anyone.”
