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  • We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

    Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.158, Del Rey
  • You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things... It doesn't frighten me.

  • The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

    Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.150, Penguin
  • Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.

    Frederick Buechner (2007). “Wunschdenken: ein religiöses ABC”, p.128, Theologischer Verlag Zürich
  • For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt by constant changes in its outward structure? ...Here, too, we can learn by the example of the Catholic Church. Though its doctrinal edifice, and in part quite superfluously, comes into collision with exact science and research, it is none the less unwilling to sacrifice so much as one little syllable of its dogmas... it is only such dogmas which lend to the whole body the character of a faith.

    "Mein Kampf". Book by Adolf Hitler, Volume II, Chapter 5 - Philosophy and Organization, 1926.
  • This is my prayer for all of us — 'Lord, increase our faith.' Increase our faith to bridge the chasms of uncertainty and doubt. Grant us faith to look beyond the problems of the moment to the miracles of the future. Give us faith to do what is right and let the consequence follow.

    Prayer   Bridges   Giving  
    "Lord, Increase Our Faith". Ensign magazine, pp. 52-53, November 1987.
  • An educated man must have a "curiosity in exploring the unfamiliar and unexpected, an open-mindedness in entertaining opposing points of view, tolerance for the ambiguity that surrounds so many important issues, and a willingness to make the best decisions he can in the face of uncertainty and doubt".

    Men   Views   Issues  
  • I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything. There are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask "Why are we here?" I might think about it a little bit, and if I can't figure it out then I go on to something else. But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell.

    "Horizon (The Pleasure of Finding Things Out)". Documentary (November 23, 1981), later published in "No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman" edited by Christopher Sykes (p. 239), 1994.
  • We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt.

    Ignorance   Order   Doubt  
    Richard P. Feynman (2011). “"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.263, W. W. Norton & Company
  • When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty - some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain.

    "The Value of Science". Richard P. Feynman's public address at the National Academy of Sciences, Autumn 1955.
  • To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

    Love   Life   Sex  
    "Ideals and Doubts" by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Illinois Law Review, 1915.
  • Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security

    John Allen Paulos (2007). “A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market”, p.5, Basic Books
  • I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me.

    "Horizon (The Pleasure of Finding Things Out)". Documentary (November 23, 1981), later published in "No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman" edited by Christopher Sykes (p. 239), 1994.
  • Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

  • If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

    Life   Truth   Real  
    "Principles of Philosophy". Book by Rene Descartes, 1644.
  • The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

  • I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

    Thinking   Doubt   Found  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

    Voltaire (1919). “Voltaire in His Letters: Being a Selection from His Correspondence”
  • In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

  • The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

    Life   Business   Future  
    The Left Hand of Darkness ch. 5 (1969)
  • The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

    Block   Power   Men  
    Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.52, Open Road Media
  • A hero is also someone who, in their day to day interactions with the world, despite all the pain, uncertainty and doubt that can plague us, is resiliently and unashamedly themselves. If you can wake up every day and be emotionally open and honest regardless of what you get back from the world then you can be the hero of your own story. Each and every person who can say that despite life’s various buffetings that they are proud to be the person they are is a hero.

    Pain   Hero   Doubt  
  • I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

    Richard P. Feynman (2005). “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman”, p.21, Hachette UK
  • I don't feel frightened by not knowing things.

    "No Ordinary Genius". Book by Christopher Sykes (p. 239), 1994.
  • When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is in some doubt.

    Richard P. Feynman (2011). “"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.263, W. W. Norton & Company
  • I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

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