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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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"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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"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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"It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all."
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"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for 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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"God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course."
God

"Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us."
Animals

"One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human."
Eye

"When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone."
Certainty

"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water."
Magic

"It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man."
Artist

"Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation."
Man

"Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war."
Time

"Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before."
Tomorrow
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