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Certitude drives people mad. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Certitude is not the test of certainty. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Faith is not a question of basking in the certainty that there is a God and that God is taking care of us. Many of us are never granted this kind of assurance. Certitude is not the real substance of faith. Faith is a way of seeing things. -- Ronald Rolheiser
On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self. -- Wilhelm Dilthey
Securities, certitudes and peace do not lead to discoveries. -- Carl Jung
It is not doubt,is certitude that drives you mad. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia. -- Robert Anton Wilson
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes. -- Joseph Heller
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Mature psychological health cannot exist unless we are capable of doubting any form of conceptual certitude about ourselves or anything else. -- Richard Moss
It's one of the greatest comforts of working in ministry: the unspoken certitude that your spouse did not marry you for your money. -- Mark Hart
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found? -- William James
My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence. -- Robert Anton Wilson
One of the most constant characteristics of beliefs is their intolerance. The stronger the belief, the greater its intolerance. Men dominated by a certitude cannot tolerate those who do not accept it. -- Gustave Le Bon
The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude -- Peter L. Berger
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 it is presented as the embodiment of the one and only truth -- Eric Hoffer
There is no other possibility for possessing certitude with regard to one's life apart from self-abandonmen t, in a continuous crescendo, into the hands of a love that seems to grow constantly because it has its origin in God. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Existential anxiety of doubt drives the person toward the creation of certitude of systems of meaning, which are supported by tradition and authority. Neurotic anxiety builds a narrow castle of certitude which can be defended with the utmost certainty. -- Paul Tillich
Peace is the fruit of love, a love that is also justice. But to grow in love requires work -- hard work. And it can bring pain because it implies loss -- loss of the certitudes, comforts, and hurts that shelter and define us. -- Jean Vanier
For every gain in deep certitude there is a corresponding growth of superficial "doubt." This doubt is by no means opposed to genuine faith, but it mercilessly examines and questions the spurious "faith" of everyday life, the human faith which is nothing but the passive acceptance of conventional opinion. -- Thomas Merton
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, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free. -- Leo Buscaglia
Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude. -- Jim Leach
Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude. -- Joyce Carol Oates
On a very long and very high wire, I will not hope to not be blown off by high winds. I will have the certitude that such could not happen. -- Philippe Petit
Broaden the tax base, close loopholes and flatten the tax rates - all of which would bring more revenue stability and certitude to projections as well as make filing a comparable breeze. -- David Harsanyi
The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude. -- Peter L. Berger
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 rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm. -- Eliot Spitzer
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 will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason. -- Jon Meacham
I started putting a wire up in secret and performing without permission. Notre Dame, the Sydney Harbor Bridge, the World Trade Center. And I developed a certitude, a faith that convinced me that I will get safely to the other side. If not, I will never do that first step. -- Philippe Petit
I can't say with certitude. -- Anthony Weiner
I don't like quintessential certitude. -- Louise Bogan
Accept and express your underlying certitude, and it shall be worldwide sagacity. -- Ogwo David Emenike
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
THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science. -- Ambrose Bierce
What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude. -- Honore de Balzac
I think we may very well, in many areas, get likelihood, but not certitude. We don't want certitude anyway, do we? -- Frank Moore Cross
A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other. -- Andre Gide
Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question. -- Etienne Gilson
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
The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity -- the incredibly outgoing energy -- of righteous rage. -- June Jordan
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 next). -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but also of 'correct thinking.' -- Paulo Freire
Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence. -- Robert Anton Wilson
I can say with unwavering certitude that I have never started a pint of Ben 'n Jerry's ice cream that I didn't finish in its entirety within 6 minutes. -- Gregor Collins
La volupte unique et supre" me de l'amour g|"t dans la certitude de faire le mal. The unique, supreme pleasure of love consists in the certainty of doing evil. -- Charles Baudelaire
In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction and antisocial behavior, discouraging any responsibility for one's actions.. -- Don Henley
Most of the ugly wars in history have been wars of religion. And there's nothing more dangerous than someone with religious certitude who creates consequences in the world that to me are simply inexcusable. -- Sam Hamill

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