The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Happiness is a perceptual reality, not an absolute certainty.

Obviously, the Guidant board favors the certainty associated with J&J’s offer. They’ve basically gotten the FTC to sign off with J&J. They just need shareholder approval.

A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never...

I believe in intuitions and inspirations…I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.

I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion with my previous researches. Disgusted at my want of success, I went away...

At the moment, I cannot say with hundred percent certainty that I will play on Friday.

But was it worth anything?That’s the hopelessness of it. The openness of it. The part of it I can never understand. I am afraid of ambiguity and certainity and permanence and impermanence. And so is...

Luck is a favorable thing out of an uncertainty. No such thing as luck when everything’s certain.