Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
“Accept and express your underlying certitude, and it shall be worldwide sagacity.” — Ogwo David Emenike Copy Share Image
“Thus the unfacts, did we possess them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our certitude...” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they… — William James Copy Share Image
La volupte unique et supre" me de l'amour g|"t dans la certitude de faire le mal. The unique, supreme pleasure of love… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
Most of the ugly wars in history have been wars of religion. And there's nothing more dangerous than someone with religious certitude… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity -- the incredibly outgoing energy -- of… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
One of the most constant characteristics of beliefs is their intolerance. The stronger the belief, the greater its intolerance. Men dominated by… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
For every gain in deep certitude there is a corresponding growth of superficial "doubt." This doubt is by no means opposed to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
...the reason for [this age's] anxiety and unrest is because in one direction, 'truth' increases in scope and quantity - via science… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I think most of us become nicer as we get older, less judgmental, less full of certitude; life tends to knock a… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Faith is not a question of basking in the certainty that there is a God and that God is taking care of… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
Peace is the fruit of love, a love that is also justice. But to grow in love requires work -- hard work.… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
There is no other possibility for possessing certitude with regard to one's life apart from self-abandonmen t, in a continuous crescendo, into… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
Paleontologist Niles Eldredge, a prominent evolutionist, said: 'The doubt that has infiltrated the previous, smugly confident certitude of evolutionary biology’s last twenty… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
[My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
We too often forget that faith is a matter of questioning and struggle before it becomes one of certitude and peace. You… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I was a violent, self-destructive teenager, who was adopted right at the end of World War II. I was lied to and… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
...since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe, and prevents… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
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