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title: "Popular Certainty Wisdom"
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> [I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/i-have-a-lot-of-faith-but-i-am-also-afraid-a-lot-and-have-no-real/)

[Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-lamott/)

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> [It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/it-does-take-great-maturity-to-understand-that-the-opinion-we-are/)

[Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milan-kundera/)

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> [You want to know yourself. For this keep steadily in the focus of consciousness, the only clue you have: your certainty of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/you-want-to-know-yourself-for-this-keep-steadily-in-the-focus-of/)

[Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/)

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> [It is hard to bear with people who stand still along the way, lose heart, and seek their happiness in little pleasures…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-nouwen/it-is-hard-to-bear-with-people-who-stand-still-along-the-way-lose/)

[Henri Nouwen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-nouwen/)

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> [Where the quest for knowledge is relatively, and now almost absolutely, unrestrained, the public benefit will be great, especially where the certainty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-johnson/where-the-quest-for-knowledge-is-relatively-and-now-almost-absolutely/)

[Paul Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-johnson/)

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> [I was 27 when I uploaded my first YouTube video. I had a master's degree and was running a small business. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hank-green/i-was-27-when-i-uploaded-my-first-youtube-video-i-had-a-master-s/)

[Hank Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hank-green/)

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> [I learned the most important lesson of my life: that the extraordinary is not the birthright of a chosen and privileged few,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/i-learned-the-most-important-lesson-of-my-life-that-the-extraordinary/)

[Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/)

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> [My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/my-love-for-you-lord-is-not-an-uncertain-feeling-but-a-matter-of/)

[Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/)

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> [It wasn't shared social status or ethnicity that brought Jesus' followers together either, nor was it total agreement on exactly who this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-held-evans/it-wasn-t-shared-social-status-or-ethnicity-that-brought-jesus/)

[Rachel Held Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-held-evans/)

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> [“When faith simplifies things that need to remain complex, instead of giving us strength to live with complexity, when it gives us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brad-hirschfield/when-faith-simplifies-things-that-need-to-remain-complex-instead-of/)

[Brad Hirschfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brad-hirschfield/)

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> [Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/theory-has-nothing-to-do-with-a-work-of-art-pictures-which-are/)

[Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/)

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> [We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pz-myers/we-godless-lack-that-certainty-and-we-know-the-world-is-a-complex/)

[PZ Myers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pz-myers/)

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> [While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/while-the-dogmatist-is-harmful-the-sceptic-is-useless-one-is-certain/)

[Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/)

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> [Was there another life she was meant to be living? At times she felt a keen certainty that there was ― a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laini-taylor/was-there-another-life-she-was-meant-to-be-living-at-times-she-felt-a/)

[Laini Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laini-taylor/)

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> [Having spent 200 hours on the above, the young player, even if he possesses no special talent for chess, is likely to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emanuel-lasker/having-spent-200-hours-on-the-above-the-young-player-even-if-he/)

[Emanuel Lasker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emanuel-lasker/)

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> [I suppose I like certainty as much as anyone else, but I also feel that the hidden costs are high, that we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-d-ambrosio/i-suppose-i-like-certainty-as-much-as-anyone-else-but-i-also-feel/)

[Charles D'Ambrosio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-d-ambrosio/)

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> [The increased abstraction in mathematics that took place during the early part of this century was paralleled by a similar trend in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-devlin/the-increased-abstraction-in-mathematics-that-took-place-during-the/)

[Keith Devlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-devlin/)

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> [On the other hand, I view the whole matter from a cosmic perspective. I don't take a position. I believe that there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-greenaway/on-the-other-hand-i-view-the-whole-matter-from-a-cosmic-perspective-i/)

[Peter Greenaway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-greenaway/)

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> [We have enacted many economic reforms but also others that have an impact on the overall investment climate. For instance, I launched…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/petro-poroshenko/we-have-enacted-many-economic-reforms-but-also-others-that-have-an/)

[Petro Poroshenko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/petro-poroshenko/)

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> [Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheldon-b-kopp/everything-good-is-costly-and-the-development-of-the-personality-is/)

[Sheldon B. Kopp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheldon-b-kopp/)

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> [“In all his forty-eight years upon this earth, Barry Flynn was certain of only two things. One: death always trumped life, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/la-la-la/in-all-his-forty-eight-years-upon-this-earth-barry-flynn-was-certain/)

[LA LA LA](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/la-la-la/)

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> [There are few times when we know with absolute certainty we are going to do something for the last time. Life has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/megan-hart/there-are-few-times-when-we-know-with-absolute-certainty-we-are-going/)

[Megan Hart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/megan-hart/)

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> [There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-deland/there-s-one-thing-that-always-interests-me-about-you-good-people-not/)

[Margaret Deland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-deland/)

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> [Be a force of nature, take on the chaos. Also, there will be bad times, and those bad times will come to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-limn/be-a-force-of-nature-take-on-the-chaos-also-there-will-be-bad-times/)

[Jeremy Limn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-limn/)

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> [The greatest good that can come to anyone is forming within them an absolute certainty of themselves, and of their relationship to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-holmes/the-greatest-good-that-can-come-to-anyone-is-forming-within-them-an/)

[Ernest Holmes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-holmes/)

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> [An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/an-expectation-was-there-mixed-in-with-so-many-other-emotions/)

[Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/)

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> [I'm for open-mindedness and tolerance. I'm against any form of fanaticism, fundamentalism or zealotry, and this certainty of 'We have the truth.'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-pullman/i-m-for-open-mindedness-and-tolerance-i-m-against-any-form-of/)

[Philip Pullman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-pullman/)

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> [But theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your own religious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yossi-klein-halevi/but-theological-change-happens-though-selective-quoting-every/)

[Yossi Klein Halevi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yossi-klein-halevi/)

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> [“Most of all: There's uncertainty in our lives. At night, you just have to go to sleep and have faith in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josh-ritter/most-of-all-there-s-uncertainty-in-our-lives-at-night-you-just-have/)

[Josh Ritter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josh-ritter/)

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> [People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-canfield/people-who-ask-confidently-get-more-than-those-who-are-hesitant-and-2/)

[Jack Canfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-canfield/)

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> [“She knows her timing, always knows. The time to strike or the time to starve. Her eyes as a clock, she watches…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-liccione/she-knows-her-timing-always-knows-the-time-to-strike-or-the-time-to/)

[Anthony Liccione](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-liccione/)

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> [I have a mathematical certainty that the future will confirm my assertion that aerial warfare will be the most important element in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giulio-douhet/i-have-a-mathematical-certainty-that-the-future-will-confirm-my/)

[Giulio Douhet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giulio-douhet/)

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> [We are born into a vast room whose walls consist of a thousand doors of possibility. Each door is flung open to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-teachout/we-are-born-into-a-vast-room-whose-walls-consist-of-a-thousand-doors/)

[Terry Teachout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-teachout/)

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> [“It is easy for me to say it took me awhile to know. That is about as accurate as I can get.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-levithan/it-is-easy-for-me-to-say-it-took-me-awhile-to-know-that-is-about-as/)

[David Levithan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-levithan/)

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> [I think it's very important to distinguish between objectivity - which tends to be open, flexible, skeptical of its own certainty and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-j-t-mitchell/i-think-it-s-very-important-to-distinguish-between-objectivity-which/)

[W. J. T. Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-j-t-mitchell/)

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> [The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/the-new-always-happens-against-the-overwhelming-odds-of-statistical/)

[Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/)

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> [He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-camus/he-was-expressing-his-certainty-that-my-appeal-would-be-granted-but-i/)

[Albert Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-camus/)

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> [That which draws us by its mystical force; what every created thing, even the very stones, feels with absolute certainty as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustav-mahler/that-which-draws-us-by-its-mystical-force-what-every-created-thing/)

[Gustav Mahler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustav-mahler/)

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> [What I envy most about you and everyone else heading back to school is the certainty of it all. You’ve got a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/megan-mccafferty/what-i-envy-most-about-you-and-everyone-else-heading-back-to-school/)

[Megan McCafferty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/megan-mccafferty/)

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> [The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-humphries/the-whole-point-of-art-aside-from-the-aesthetic-pleasure-it-yields-is/)

[Barry Humphries](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-humphries/)

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                        "text": "It wasn't shared social status or ethnicity that brought Jesus' followers together either, nor was it total agreement on exactly who this Jesus character was - a prophet? The Messiah? The Son of God? No, there is one thing that connected all these dissimilar people together it was a shared sense of need: a hunger, a thirst, a longing. It was the certainty that, when Jesus said He came for the sick, this meant Jesus came for me.",
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                        "text": "“When faith simplifies things that need to remain complex, instead of giving us strength to live with complexity, when it gives us answers where none exist, instead of helping us appreciate the sacredness of living with questions, when it offers certainty when there needs to be doubt, and when it tells us that we have arrived when we should be searching-then there is a problem with that faith.”",
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                        "text": "Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents itself as the Unmanageable, the Illogical, the Meaningless. It demonstrates the endless multiplicity of aspects; it takes away our certainty, because it deprives a thing of its meaning and its name. It shows us the thing in all the manifold significance and infinite variety that preclude the emergence of any single meaning and view.",
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                        "text": "We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by a moral force - virtue is subject to negotiation, and is found in working together with others to find mutually satisfactory solutions. Good is not absolute, it is an emergent property that arises from successful networks of individuals. It is also something that is measured by evidence: we look at the good that people do, not the promises that they make and never keep, or the lies that dovetail nicely into dogma. Competence is a virtue. Intent is meaningless without action.",
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                        "text": "While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or of ignorance. Knowledge is not so precise a concept as is commonly thought. Instead of saying 'I know this', we ought to say 'I more or less know something more or less like this'. ... Knowledge in practical affairs has not the certainty or the precision of arithmetic.",
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                        "text": "Was there another life she was meant to be living? At times she felt a keen certainty that there was ― a phantom life, taunting her from just out of reach. A sense would come over her while she was drawing or walking, and once while she was dancing slow and close with Kaz, that she was supposed to be doing something else with her hands, with her legs, with her body. Something else. Something else. Something else.",
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                        "text": "Having spent 200 hours on the above, the young player, even if he possesses no special talent for chess, is likely to be among those two or three thousand chessplayers [who play on a par with a master]. There are, however, a quarter of a million chessplayers who annually spend no fewer than 200 hours on chess without making any progress. Without going into any further calculations, I can assert with a high degree of certainty that nowadays we achieve only a fraction of what we are capable of achieving.",
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                        "text": "I suppose I like certainty as much as anyone else, but I also feel that the hidden costs are high, that we pay a heavy price for our convictions. This is a human issue as well as a writing issue - at least in the personal essay as I practice it. Any real essayist knows that certainty is an editorial decision, arrived at not through conviction but through suppression, the denial of a whole range of possibilities, of alternatives that we jettison, sometimes necessarily, in order to steady the ship.",
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