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"Inquiry is fatal to certainty."
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"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers."
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"Inquiry is fatal to certainty."
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"It's already figured out."
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"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty."
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"Nothing consoles and comforts like certainty does."
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"Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty."
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"We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information."
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"Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things."
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"One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO."
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"When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges."
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"Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
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"Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal."
Nature
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
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"To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say."
Nothing
"We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries."
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"In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order."
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"If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous."
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"Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard."
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"Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance."
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"Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law."
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