Doubts Quotes

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

~ Edgar Watson Howe

Doubt is not a pleasant state but certainty is a ridiculous one.

~ Voltaire

Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities the strength the wisdom the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen.

~ Charlton Ogburn

To be absolutely certain about something one must know everything or nothing about it.

~ Olin Miller

Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man by necessity uncertain.

~ Erich Fromm

We sail within a vast sphere ever drifting in uncertainty driven from end to end.

~ Blaise Pascal

Something must be left to chance nothing is sure in a sea fight.

~ Horatio Nelson

There is nothing certain about war except that one side won't win.

~ Sir Ian Hamilton

There is only one thing about which I am certain and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

~ W Somerset Maugham

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

~ Pliny The Elder

I'm often wrong but never in doubt.

~ Ivy Baker Priest

There is one thing certain namely that we can have nothing certain therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain.

~ Samuel Butler

Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

~ John E. Kennedy

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

~ George Eliot

The demand is for certainty is a sign of weakness.

~ Mark Rutherford

The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams illusions wars peace love hate all that.... Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing.

~ John Lennon

Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers.

~ Agnes Thornton

When nothing is sure everything is possible.

~ Margaret Drabble

He who forecasts all perils will never sail the sea.

~ Anonymous

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

~ Tennessee Williams

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of shore for a very long time.

~ André Gide

To teach how to live with uncertainty yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.

~ Bertrand Russell

Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion on slender evidence.

~ John Henry Cardinal Newman

If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties it may be too late.

~ Lee Iacocca

The successful man is he who when he sees that no further certainty is attainable promptly decides on the most probable side as if he were completely sure it was right.

~ Mark Rutherford

Not seeing is half-believing.

~ Vita Sackville-West

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched-they must be felt with the heart.

~ Helen Keller

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

~ E. J. Klemme

I am a woman who understands the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin still lie beyond me.

~ Olga Broumas

To end with certainty we must begin with doubting.

~ Stanislaus

Gardening is an exercise in optimism.

~ Maria Schinz

In the face of uncertainty there is nothing wrong with hope.

~ Bernie S. Siegel

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

~ Elizabeth Bowen

Faith hasn't got no eyes but she's long-legged.

~ Zora Neale Hurston

Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

~ John H. Finley

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it you can make it so.

~ Belva Davis

If a man will begin with certainties he shall end in doubts but if he will content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

~ Francis Bacon

I said here's the river I want to flow on here's the direction I want to go and put my boat in. I was ready for the river to take unexpected turns and present obstacles.

~ Nancy Woodhull

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

~ Walt Whitman

Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances calculate the risks involved estimate our ability to deal with them and make our plans with confidence.

~ Henry Ford Ii