Uncertainity Quotes

• There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. •It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot. •Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. •When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly certain than others. •Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. •To deny, to believe, and to doubt absolutely -- this is for man what running is for a horse. •We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything. •It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science. •When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities. •As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know. •Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. •You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough. •The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. •The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. •It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong. •One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. •An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. •Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. •Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart, for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. •I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality. •Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt. •If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of douts of my own.