"Inquiry is fatal to certainty."

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"One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain."

Pliny the Elder, Roman Author

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"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."

William Gibson, American Writer

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"Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor."

John Woolman, American Clergyman

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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."

Denis Diderot, French Editor

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"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."

Rem Koolhaas, Dutch Architect

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"Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so."

Oliver Holmes, Jr., American Judge

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"The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing."

Bret Harte, American Author

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"One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO."

"Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty."

"In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain."

"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."

"Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor."

"Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things."

"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."

"Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so."

"The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice."

"A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing."

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"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."

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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."

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."