#certainty

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing. ↗

— Mark Z. Danielewski

#maturity #uncertainty #uncertainty

Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#waiting #uncertainty

Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#uncertainty

It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about. ↗

— Criss Jami

#arguments #bigot #bigotry #bigots #certainty

In some cases, I am able to respect what so many call bigots. Such people have a more solid foundation for drawing their lines when it comes to the security of their ways and quite possibly the security of mankind. They rely on something that has worked to get man this far without placing ideals blindly driven by emotion first; they have a sure line and they say, 'No.' That, in a sense, is something I find to be highly respectable. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bigotry #certainty #conviction #culture #emotions

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#ignorance #knowledge #open-mindedness #science #willful-ignorance

Uncertainty is caused by a lack of knowledge. Hesitation is the product of fear. ↗

— Internet Archive

#uncertainty #internet

We have to be mindful that there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which is us and our allies. ↗

— Cofer Black

#allies #attacks #attempt #certainty #enemy

There is no certainty; there is only adventure. ↗

— Roberto Assagioli

#certainty #only

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

#between #confusion #constitutes #decay #error