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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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"The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind."
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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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"The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle."
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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."
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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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"If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach."
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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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"Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive."
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Explore more quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
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"Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other."
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"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."
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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?"
Home

"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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