“Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still”
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer
“He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.”
No. 57 (May 19, 1759)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Book I, v, 8
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
Source: The Advancement Of Learning
Context: The two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients: the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplation: If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
Ikujiro Nonaka (1935) Japanese business theorist
Ikujiro Nonaka (1991), "The Knowledge-Creating Company", Harvard Business Review 69 (6 Nov-Dec): 96–104
