"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."

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"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."

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"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."

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"Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it."

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"I would say that without any doubt he's the killer - the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty which I - there's no question that he was the killer of President Kennedy."

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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."

William Barclay, Scottish Theologian

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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 quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers."

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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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"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."

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