Best doubt & certainty Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“The difference between religion and science is the difference between thoughtless certainty and thoughtful doubt.”

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Author:Kedar Joshi

“We want to have certainties and no doubts- results and no experiments- without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt and results only thorough experiment.”

Want Results Doubt Seeing Experiments Arise Certainty No Doubt Thorough

Author:Carl Jung

“There has to be certainty and there has to be clarity. There can't be ambiguity, .. This has to be certain, clear in all respects from all the parties so nobody is in any doubt about what the future holds.”

Certain Party Clear Doubt Clarity Certainty Ambiguity

Author:Tony Blair

“Certainty sees things in restrictive, protective, aggressive ways, and thus isn't seeing at all.”

Way Doubt Seeing Certainty Aggressive Protective

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Your body can dictate your mind, so when I walk to a fight a lot of times I'm scared, I'm scared to death, I have a lot of doubts of myself, I'm afraid to fail, I'm afraid to be humiliated in front of everybody; but what happens, I act like it's impossible for me to fail and that my victory is a certainty. So as I'm walking to the Octagon and I act with confidence my body takes over my mind and I become confident for real. As I'm walking I see the change in my mind and when I reach the Octagon I'm a different person, I'm very confident.”

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Author:Georges St-Pierre

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. What is most repellent in the System of Nature - after the recipe for making eels from flour - is the audacity with which it decides that there is no God, without even having tried the impossibility. If God did not exist, he would have to be invented." But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.”

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Author:Baron d'Holbach

“Doubt is a profound and effective spiritual motivation. Without doubt, no truism is transcended, no new knowledge found, no expansion of the imagination possible. Doubt is unsettling to the ego and those who are drawn to ideologies that promise the dispelling of doubt by preferring certainties never grow.”

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Author:James Hollis

“There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.”

People Interest Opinion Doubt One Thing Certainty Arrogance No Doubt Good People Pearls Swine

Author:Margaret Deland

“When we are not sure, we are alive.”

Life Inspirational Doubt Alive Certainty Not Sure

Book:The Quiet American

Source: The Quiet American

“We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty.”

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Author:Richard P. Feynman

“The neurotic has problems; the psychotic has solutions.”

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Book:Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary

Source: Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary

“We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.”

Doubt Errors Trials Certainty Impulse Resisting Trial And Error

Book:Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

Source: Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

“Questions, inside the larger mystery of sorrow, which contains us and our daily transit, and is large enough indeed to contain the whole shifting tidal theater where I make small constructions, my metaphors, my defenses. Against which I play out theories, doubts, certainties bright as high tide in sunlight, which shift just as that brightness does, in fog or rain.”

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Author:Mark Doty

“... moral certainty is certainty which is sufficient to regulate our behaviour, or which measures up to the certainty we have on matters relating to the conduct of life which we never normally doubt, though we know that it is possible, absolutely speaking, that they may be false.”

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Author:Rene Descartes

“God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts.”

Doubt Certainty Ricochet

Book:The Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Out of the element of participation follows the certainty of faith; out of the element of separation follows the doubt in faith. And each is essential for the nature of faith. Sometimes certainty conquers doubt, but it cannot eliminate doubt. The conquered of today may become the conqueror of tomorrow. Sometimes doubt conquers faith, but it still contains faith. Otherwise it would be indifference.”

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Book:Dynamics of Faith

Source: Dynamics of Faith

“The best antidote against evils of all kinds, against the evil thoughts that haunt the soul, against the needless perplexities which distract the conscience, is to keep hold of the good we have. Impure thoughts will not stand against pure words and prayers and deeds. Little doubts will not avail against great certainties. Fix your affections on things above, and then you will less and less be troubled by the cares, the temptations, the troubles of things on earth.”

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Author:Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

“Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.”

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Author:Vaclav Havel

“Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.”

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Author:Voltaire

“In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.”

“Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients; the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplation; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”

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Author:Francis Bacon

“Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”

Doubt Ridiculous Certainty

Author:Voltaire

“Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.”

Doubt Insane Certainty

Book:On the Genealogy of Morals

Source: On the Genealogy of Morals

“Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.”

Giving Enough Doubt Certainty

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.”

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Book:Living Without Fear

Source: Living Without Fear

“both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold”

Common Doubt Cold Certainty Contagious Doubt And Certainty Common Cold

Author:Kathryn Schulz

“Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.”

“Knowledge breeds doubt, not certainty, And the more we know the more uncertain we become.”

Knows Doubt Certainty Uncertain

Author:A. J. P. Taylor

“The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.”

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Book:The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People

Source: The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People

“Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possibilities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom.”

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Book:The Problems of Philosophy

Source: The Problems of Philosophy

“The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt.”

Real Doubt Capacity Presses Certainty Thrive Affirmation

Author:Wendy Kaminer

“The other guys are selling certainty. Not me. I'm on the corner with doubt.”

Guy Doubt Corners Selling Certainty Other Guys

Author:Bill Maher

“Doubting things go ill often hurts more Than to be sure they do; for certainties Either are past remedies, or, timely knowing, The remedy then born.”

Past Born Hurt Knowing Doubt Ill Certainty Remedy Timely

Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“Existential anxiety of doubt drives the person toward the creation of certitude of systems of meaning, which are supported by tradition and authority. Neurotic anxiety builds a narrow castle of certitude which can be defended with the utmost certainty.”

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Author:Paul Tillich

“I did not imitate the skeptics who doubt only for doubting's sake, and pretend to be always undecided; on the contrary, my whole intention was to arrive at a certainty, and to dig away the drift and the sand until I reached the rock or the clay beneath.”

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Author:Rene Descartes

“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.”

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Author:Francis Bacon

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