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(169 votes)   Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(148 votes)   The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are.

Robert Browning
1812-1889, British Poet

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(128 votes)   Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.

R. I. Fitzhenry

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(82 votes)   It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

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(62 votes)   What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.

Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

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(40 votes)   The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

William Butler Yeats
1865-1939, Irish Poet, Playwright.

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(39 votes)   If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(36 votes)   To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

Chinese Proverb
Sayings of Chinese Origin

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(36 votes)   We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.

Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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(32 votes)   Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.

Laurence Sterne
1713-1768, British Author

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(31 votes)   If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
1889-1951, Austrian Philosopher

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(24 votes)   Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

Voltaire
1694-1778, French Historian, Writer

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(24 votes)   Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(24 votes)   The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain.

John F. Kennedy
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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(24 votes)   There is nothing certain, but the uncertain.

Proverb

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