We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

“cocksure prophet. Where I beg to differ with the great”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

— Honore de Balzac

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

For every gain in deep certitude there is a corresponding growth of superficial "doubt." This doubt is by no means opposed to genuine faith,…

— Thomas Merton

We [tend to] have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We [often feel that we] cannot derive a sense…

— Bruce Lee

Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists,…

— Anonymous

Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So…

— Matthew Arnold

I believe that ideas such as absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments of the imagination which should not be admissible in…

— Max Born

A mystic doesn’t say “I believe.” They say “I know.” A true mystic will ironically speak with that self-confidence but at the same time…

— Richard Rohr

I don't like quintessential certitude.

— Louise Bogan

We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create

— Bruce Lee

“Accept and express your underlying certitude, and it shall be worldwide sagacity.”

— Ogwo David Emenike

I can say with unwavering certitude that I have never started a pint of Ben 'n Jerry's ice cream that I didn't finish in…

— Gregor Collins

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.

— Joseph Heller