#certainty

No one knows for sure about the future. But if you feel reluctant to plan something about it, then someone with guts would define it for you. ↗

— Toba Beta

#certainty #define #definition #future #guts

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#certainty #creationists #proof #science #without

The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#acquire #always #cloud #gun #here

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#demand #intellectual #man #natural #nevertheless

A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing. ↗

— Bret Harte

#bush #certainty #hand #may #sing

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds -- justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner. ↗

— Anne Rice

#courage #daring #knowledge #questions #risk

He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#decisions #doubts #death

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#faith #intuition #faith

When comparing 100 years of experience to 1, there is a way to close the gap. One must simply understand the choices that were taken, the roads that were walked, and that there are no guarantees to an unseen future. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#miracles #uncertainty #experience

After all else, there’s more yet: I don’t know what, though. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #uncertainty #funny