Best Uncertainty And Doubt Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.”

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Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty - some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain.”

“A hero is also someone who, in their day to day interactions with the world, despite all the pain, uncertainty and doubt that can plague us, is resiliently and unashamedly themselves. If you can wake up every day and be emotionally open and honest regardless of what you get back from the world then you can be the hero of your own story. Each and every person who can say that despite life’s various buffetings that they are proud to be the person they are is a hero.”

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Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.”

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Book:God Emperor of Dune

Source: God Emperor of Dune

“I don't feel frightened by not knowing things.”

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Author:Richard P. Feynman

“We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt.”

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Book:What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Source: What Do You Care What Other People Think?

“I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.”

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Author:Carl Andre

“In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.”

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Author:Pliny the Elder

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”

Source: Voltaire in His Letters: Being a Selection from His Correspondence

“I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything. There are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask "Why are we here?" I might think about it a little bit, and if I can't figure it out then I go on to something else. But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell.”

“I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.”

Source: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

“I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.”

“Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.”

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Book:Wunschdenken: ein religiöses ABC

Source: Wunschdenken: ein religiöses ABC

“I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me.”

“To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.”

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Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security”

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Book:A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market

Source: A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market

“You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things... It doesn't frighten me.”

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Author:Richard P. Feynman

“For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt by constant changes in its outward structure? ...Here, too, we can learn by the example of the Catholic Church. Though its doctrinal edifice, and in part quite superfluously, comes into collision with exact science and research, it is none the less unwilling to sacrifice so much as one little syllable of its dogmas... it is only such dogmas which lend to the whole body the character of a faith.”

“This is my prayer for all of us — 'Lord, increase our faith.' Increase our faith to bridge the chasms of uncertainty and doubt. Grant us faith to look beyond the problems of the moment to the miracles of the future. Give us faith to do what is right and let the consequence follow.”

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Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“An educated man must have a "curiosity in exploring the unfamiliar and unexpected, an open-mindedness in entertaining opposing points of view, tolerance for the ambiguity that surrounds so many important issues, and a willingness to make the best decisions he can in the face of uncertainty and doubt".”

“When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is in some doubt.”

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Book:What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Source: What Do You Care What Other People Think?

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”