“Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty”
“Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty”
“Negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”
“A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards”
“The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness”
“Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.”
“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.”
“A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. ”