Albert Camus Quotes

Only the fools are certain and assured.

I'm starting to mistrust my judgment.

I'm not so certain in life.

Do not feel certain of anything.

Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

There wasn't a time where I felt fearful that I couldn't make the best decisions possible.

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.

I have doubts! I have such doubts!

The other guys are selling certainty. Not me. I'm on the corner with doubt.

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.

I have no talent for certainty.

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.

You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.

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

I have reservations about everything I do.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.

I was disappointed a little in Stevenson because I did think he couldn't make up his mind. It's the feeling I always had. Perhaps all of us have self-doubt, and we should have, and most of us do, but it doesn't show. It doesn't show as much as it did in Adlai; he seemed to do it in public.

Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all.

I have never been 100% confident that I am right about anything.

But is all this true?" said Brutha. Didactylos shrugged. "Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork." "You mean you don't KNOW it's true?" said Brutha. "I THINK it might be," said Didactylos. "I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.