Moral certainty is intellectual immorality

Random search for data on ... off-chance is hardly scientific. A questionnaire on 'Intellectual Immoralities' was circulated by a well-known institution. 'Intellectual Immorality No.…

— Hans Selye

One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.

— Chris Argyris

I don't apologize for my behavior anymore. Whatever I do or don't do shouldn't matter. Moral certainty is dangerous. Moral certainty is what makes…

— Steve Coogan

... moral certainty is certainty which is sufficient to regulate our behaviour, or which measures up to the certainty we have on matters relating…

— Rene Descartes

“Surely, even in a world apparently turned enthusiastically relativistic in nearly all matters of belief and conviction, at least this single principle of physiological,…

— Jake Needham

“Why should such an angel be plunged so low as into the vulgar offices of domestic life? Were she mine, I should hardly wish…

— Samuel Richardson

This process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of President will seldom fall to the lot of any many who is…

— Alexander Hamilton

Whenever a man is known to seek promotion by intrigue, by temporizing, or by resorting to the haunts of vulgarity and vice for support,…

— Noah Webster

The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.

— Mitt Romney

In a world of moral certainty, the unthinkable becomes permissible.

— Cullen Murphy

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

— Giovanni Battista Beccaria

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is…

— H. L. Mencken

“Little wonder he felt so often that he'd prolapsed all moral certainty.”

— Simon Spurrier

“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is…

— H.L. Mencken