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Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
— A.C. Grayling
What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt.
— Robert Breault
Confusion is not a bad thing. It's not doubt that makes a man mad. It's certainty.
— Pauline Melville
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The opposite of faith is not doubt, it's certainty.
— Anne Lamott
God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts.
— Sylvia Plath
Make an enemy of certainty and befriend doubt. When you can change your mind, you can change anything.
— Kevin Ashton
The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt.
— Wendy Kaminer
Whatever doubt might rise, he knew that he was right. But the rightness was an intellectual rightness and the doubt emotional.
— Clifford D. Simak
I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.
— David James Duncan
Things happen, and nothing is for sure, but you just have to keep going, believing that one day, you'll find something that is.
— A.J. Darkholme
Always doubtful is the one who always looks for certainty.
— Raheel Farooq
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.
— John Ortberg
Only trust in God can transform doubts into certainty, evil into good, night into radiant dawn.
— Pope Francis
Knowledge breeds doubt, not certainty,
And the more we know the more uncertain we become. — A.J.P. Taylor
And the more we know the more uncertain we become. — A.J.P. Taylor
Not doubt, CERTAINTY is what drives one insane
— Friedrich Nietzsche
All great discoveries ... are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.
— Mark Helprin
Take away this remaining doubt that, if it does not become a certainty, will turn into remorse.
— Alexandre Dumas
A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.
— Walter Lippmann
I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.
— Christiaan Huygens
Doubt is long-winded. Certainty is brief.
— Mason Cooley
To believe with certainty, somebody said, one has to begin by doubting.
— Sheldon Vanauken
You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith.
— Paulo Coelho
In response to a letter regarding the writer's lack of religious belief:
The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty. — Abigail Van Buren
The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty. — Abigail Van Buren
There is nothing worse than certainty. Doubt makes us weak. That is why it's so important. I've wasted too much of my life trying to be powerful.
— Phillip Andrew Bennett Low
Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.
— Joseph Bruchac
I want to say to you: Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty.
— John Patrick Shanley
Both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold
— Kathryn Schulz
Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?
— Philip Yancey
When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.
— Ernest Holmes
To have great pain is to have certainty; to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt.
— Elaine Scarry
Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
— Brian Eno
When in doubt, favor compassion
over certainty or tradition. — Ivan M. Granger
over certainty or tradition. — Ivan M. Granger
It is not doubt but certainty that drives you mad ...
— Friedrich Nietzsche
In order to determine whether we can know anything with certainty, we first have to doubt everything we know. - Descartes
— Lex Bayer
I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.
— John Patrick Shanley
Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.
— Francois Mauriac
If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Living by faith isn't living with certainty. It's trusting God in spite of unanswered questions and unresolved doubts.
— Rick Warren
Certainty sees things in restrictive, protective, aggressive ways, and thus isn't seeing at all.
— Jerry Saltz