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"Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so."
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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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"I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance."
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"You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down."
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"When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty."
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"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."
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"To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting."
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"Inquiry is fatal to certainty."
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"We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface."
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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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"The only certainty is that nothing is certain."
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"Stupidity often saves a man from going mad."
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"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."
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"The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer."
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"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"
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"A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times."
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"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."
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"A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time."
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"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor."
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