I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.[Je n’étais peut-être pas sûr de ce qui m’intéressait réellement, mais j’étais tout à fait sûr de ce qui ne m’intéressait pas.]
Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied; thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Doubt thou the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.
Ah, mais c’est anglais ça, everything in black and white, everything clear-cut and well defined. But life, it is not like that, Mademoiselle. There are the things that are not yet, but which cast their shadow before.
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
Uncertainty is always uncertain, but the difficulty with people who rely on systems is that they begin to believe that nearly everything is in some way a system and therefore, sooner or later, they become bureaucrats.
To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
Only the fools are certain and assured.
Of the terrible doubt of appearances, of the uncertainty after all, that we may be deluded.
