“There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.” — John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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“Doubt is long-winded. Certainty is brief.” — Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection (1989)
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“No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.” — Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon
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“Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.” — Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn
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“Stand aloof from your own opinions; they seek to lure you with an illusive certainty.” — Henry S. Haskins, Meditations in Wall Street
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“We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.” — Eric Hoffer, The True Believer
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“I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.” — Michael Crichton, State of Fear
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“Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.” — Richard Diebenkorn, Notes to Myself on Beginning a Painting
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“It is our knowledge — the things we are sure of — that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.” — Lincoln Steffens, Radiant Fatherhood
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“As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life — so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.” — Dr Matt Cartmill, “Why I became a scientist”, American Scientist, 1988
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