#certainty

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty. ↗

— George Eliot

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The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

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Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty. ↗

— Rupert Sheldrake

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We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty. ↗

— Nate Silver

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If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive. ↗

— Ron Silver

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It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

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Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty. ↗

— Adam Smith

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To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting. ↗

— Stanislaus I

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