9 Certitude Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

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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

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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Reject cynicism. Reject certitude. And don't be a jerk. Be a good guy. Jake Sullivan

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People are beginning to doubt the moral certitude of people on the right, especially the far right. Tom Brokaw

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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

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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

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

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