Illusion of Certainty Quotes

Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic.

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see and then we believe our interpretation of it, we don’t even know we are making an interpretation most of the time. We think this is reality.

People like rules, or at least the appearance of rules, even in fantasy.

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.