"Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude." — Jim Leach

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• The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only… — Paulo Freire
• A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one… — Andre Gide
• In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words… — Don Henley
• Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary,… — Thomas Merton
• ...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe,… — Julian Huxley
• On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and… — Wilhelm Dilthey
• My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any… — Robert Anton Wilson
• Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never… — Robert Anton Wilson
• The moral certitude of the state in wartime is a kind of fundamentalism. And this dangerous messianic brand of religion,… — Chris Hedges
• The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with… — Peter L. Berger
• I believe that ideas such as absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments of the imagination which should… — Max Born
• Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia. — Robert Anton Wilson

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