Quotations on Certainty
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
-Olin Miller
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
There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
-Owen Meredith
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
-Bertrand Russell
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.
-G.K. Chesterton
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
-Voltaire

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