When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.

John Wesley

John Wesley

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If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and can never soar.

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— John Stuart Mill

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— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

There is no indication that there was any certainty about when this will happen. And to me it sounds like a bunch of bureaucratic mumbo jumbo about the process that they have in that country [Japan}.

Ambiguity supposes eventual resolution of itself whereas certitude implies further ambiguity.

— John Ashbery

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