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Quotes About Certitude

Believe me, I'm not going to try to get into testing.
~ John Engler
There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness.
~ Louis L'Amour
The lesson Holmes took from the war can be put in a sentence. It is that certitude leads to violence.
~ Louis Menand
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~ Rosa Montero
Doubt is conquered by faith, just as it is faith which has brought doubt into the world.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.
~ Salman Rushdie
When ninety-nine percent of people thought the world was flat," Evel said, "it didn't make the world flat. The world didn't need people to believe it was round to be round. Right now, ninety-nine percent of people are happily having a picnic on a railway track. Which doesn't mean there isn't a train coming down the line, traveling pretty fast. The railway train doesn't need people to believe it's coming, because it's coming.
~ Salman Rushdie
Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself a kind of belief. Doubt.
~ Salman Rushdie
AUTHENTIC, adj. Indubitably true — in somebody's opinion.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Definition of positive- ´wrong at the top of your lungs´
~ Ambrose Bierce
If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.
~ George Edward Woodberry
Doubts are death. Doubts are the dry rot of life.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
I'm not going to doubt my life.
~ Yoko Ono
The greatest evil occurs when people, no matter what their aims or their motives, become utterly convinced that they are right. [Atticus Pūnd]
~ Anthony Horowitz
The repetitions, meaningless expressions, stammers, and nonsensical monosyllables with which we express hesitation, along with the clichés and banalities that constitute so much of everyday conversation, cannot and should not be used when our characters are talking. Rather, they should speak more fluently than we do, with greater economy and certitude.
~ Francine Prose
A b?nui c? eÈ™ti muritor înseamn? a cunoaÈ™te începutul groazei. A afla cu certitudine c? eÈ™ti muritor, înseamn? a cunoaÈ™te sfârÈ™itul groazei.
~ Frank Herbert
On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.
~ Wilhelm Dilthey
She'd be absolutely certain before she told
~ Lyn Andrews
I can afford to be wrong, because I am more right—that's all.
~ Anais Nin
the discovery of each other brings a kind of peace, because it brings the certitude that we are right. We are stronger together ... we will have less doubts. This seemed deeply true, yet I wonder if it is good to ally similarities, one agreeing with the other, as twins might, so that this might give an illusion of balance, reassure us about our orientation, or whether we should seek this by contrast with others
~ Anais Nin
Faith is nothing other than the certitude that God speaks truth.
~ Andrew Murray
Chi dubita di se stesso di rado sbaglia.
~ Samuel Richardson
Pretpostavimo da sam ja apsolutno u pravu a da monsignor, na primjer, ima potpuno krivo. Ako sam ja u pravu, problem suvislosti svijeta, i sva odgovornost za nju, postaju moji.
~ Saul Bellow
O, svetitelju! Tu sam vas i ceko! Zar bi vam ovo bio slucaj prvi da nesto svedocite lazno? Zar niste Boga, svet i sve sto svetom vrvi, sve sto coveku trepti u glavi i u krvi, definisali izvanredno snazno, drskoga cela, smelo, zaneseno? A kad biste valjano u sebe zagledali, morali biste priznati posteno da ste o svemu tome taman toliko znali koliko i o smrti gospodin-Svertlajnovoj.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe