Certitude Quotes

56 quotes by 46 authors

I don't like quintessential certitude. — Louise Bogan
...the reason for [this age's] anxiety and unrest is because in one direction, 'truth' increases in scope and quantity - via science and technology -… — Soren Kierkegaard
We too often forget that faith is a matter of questioning and struggle before it becomes one of certitude and peace. You have to doubt… — Thomas Merton
Certitude is not the test of certainty. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the… — Igor Stravinsky
Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow to… — Albert Camus
The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine however profound and sublime will be effective unless… — Eric Hoffer
Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction. — Henri Frederic Amiel
...since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude. — Jim Leach
Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives. — Georges Braque
Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me. — Paul Gauguin
An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free… — Jon Meacham
Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude. — Joyce Carol Oates
The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they… — Eliot Spitzer
Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various,… — Matthew Arnold
With the certitude of a true believer, Vellya Paapen had assured the twins that there was no such thing in the world as a black… — Arundhati Roy
To commit herself to becoming "an apostle of Joy" when humanly speaking she might have felt at the brink of despair, was heroic indeed. She… — Brian Kolodiejchuk
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn,… — Leo Buscaglia

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