Certitude Quotes

56 Certitude quotes by 46 unique authors

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
Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, and she guessed… — Umberto Eco
Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness… — Simone de Beauvoir
In this game he had acquired a great deal of muddled knowledge, more than one approximation and less than one certitude. And absence of energy,… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel --… — Robert Anton Wilson
Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these private certitudes that… — Gilles Deleuze
Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Peace is the fruit of love, a love that is also justice. But to grow in love requires work -- hard work. And it can… — Jean Vanier
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 with… — Richard Rohr
...we have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from anything which has… — Bruce Lee
The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned up in the… — Eric Hoffer

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