Just 3 Quotes: Doubt
07.12.2021
3 quotes from 3 books. Sent weekly.
Enjoy!
—Mark
“Some people are more certain of everything than I am of anything.”
—In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington, by Robert Rubin (2003)
“If you want to be certain, then you are apt to be obsolete.“
—The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn, by Richard W. Hamming (1997)
“Simone Weil wrote, ‘Doubt is a virtue of the intelligence.’ As with every other principle, enshrining doubt as the highest principle in thought may become merely another excuse for intolerance, but I believe there are forms of doubt that are virtuous. Doubt is less attractive than certainty to most people.”
—A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind, by Siri Hustvedt (2016)