Top 76 Quotes About Certitude
#1. Enlightenment is not about knowing as much as it is about unknowing; it is not so much learning as unlearning. It is about surrendering and letting go rather than achieving and possessing. It's more about entering the mystery than arriving at a mental certitude.
Richard Rohr
#2. With the certitude of a true believer, Vellya Paapen had assured the twins that there was no such thing in the world as a black cat. He said that there were only black cat chaped holes in the universe.
Arundhati Roy
#3. It is important to know that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but in fact, certitude and the demand for certitude!
Richard Rohr
#4. On a very long and very high wire, I will not hope to not be blown off by high winds. I will have the certitude that such could not happen.
Philippe Petit
#6. I think most of us become nicer as we get older, less judgmental, less full of certitude; life tends to knock a few corners of us as we go through. Cancer, divorce, teenagers, and other plagues make us give up on expecting ourselves - or life - to be perfect, which is a real relief.
Molly Ivins
#7. Faith is not a question of basking in the certainty that there is a God and that God is taking care of us. Many of us are never granted this kind of assurance. Certitude is not the real substance of faith. Faith is a way of seeing things.
Ronald Rolheiser
#8. I am being followed, I realized, with a blend of certitude and astonishment, like a soldier discovering that gangrene has taken hold of his leg.
Roberto Bolano
#9. She had come to accept, deeply, and with certitude, that she had been born into a world, a life, that would not let her be whole.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#10. Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.
Georges Braque
#11. If this war has taught us anything, it is that convictions of righteous certitude can be soul-corrupting illusions that offer mo dispensation from hell.
C.S. Harris
#12. Most of the ugly wars in history have been wars of religion. And there's nothing more dangerous than someone with religious certitude who creates consequences in the world that to me are simply inexcusable.
Sam Hamill
#13. The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine however profound and sublime will be effective unless it is presented as the embodiment of the one and only truth
Eric Hoffer
#14. Yet if all reality is subjective, all certitude is impossible.
Robin Paul Wood
#15. There are moments of faith, interspersed with times when the smoke & flames of burning children blot out our faith ... although it flickers again. The difference between the skeptic & the believer is the frequency of faith and not the certitude of one's position.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#16. It was easy to speak theoretically and idealistically about politics when one is seeking power. The demands of exercising it once it is won, however, are so complex and fluid that ideological certitude is often among the first casualties of actual governing.
Jon Meacham
#17. She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude.
Bill Bryson
#18. Mature psychological health cannot exist unless we are capable of doubting any form of conceptual certitude about ourselves or anything else.
Richard Moss
#19. Accept and express your underlying certitude, and it shall be worldwide sagacity.
Ogwo David Emenike
#20. Existential anxiety of doubt drives the person toward the creation of certitude of systems of meaning, which are supported by tradition and authority. Neurotic anxiety builds a narrow castle of certitude which can be defended with the utmost certainty.
Paul Tillich
#21. Certitude is strength and suspicion is worthless, and worry over suspicion is something less than that. I
R.A. Salvatore
#22. Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.
Robert Anton Wilson
#23. What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
Honore De Balzac
#24. Broaden the tax base, close loopholes and flatten the tax rates - all of which would bring more revenue stability and certitude to projections as well as make filing a comparable breeze.
David Harsanyi
#25. The author writes that the central conflict within journalist and seller of the American way Henry Luce was between his curiosity and his certitude.
David Halberstam
#26. The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but also of 'correct thinking.'
Paulo Freire
#27. It must always remain the great curiosity of history - a whim, a fantasy, an apparition, a thing unexpected and undreamed; and it should serve as a warning to those rash political theorists of to-day who speak with certitude of social processes. Capitalism
Jack London
#28. Friendship affords total certitude above all and that is what distinguishes it from love. It means respect as well and total acceptance of another being.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#30. Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
William James
#31. Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
#32. Thus the unfacts, did we possess them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our certitude ...
James Joyce
#33. The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity
the incredibly outgoing energy
of righteous rage.
June Jordan
#34. We're starting to behave as if we've reached the end of human knowledge. And while that notion is undoubtedly false, the sensation of certitude it generates is paralyzing.
Chuck Klosterman
#35. The moral certitude of the state in wartime is a kind of fundamentalism. And this dangerous messianic brand of religion, one where self-doubt is minimal, has come increasingly to color the modern world of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
Chris Hedges
#36. Faith is nothing other than the certitude that God speaks truth.
Andrew Murray
#38. Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#39. I started putting a wire up in secret and performing without permission. Notre Dame, the Sydney Harbor Bridge, the World Trade Center. And I developed a certitude, a faith that convinced me that I will get safely to the other side. If not, I will never do that first step.
Philippe Petit
#40. Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question.
Etienne Gilson
#41. 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
#42. The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude.
Peter L. Berger
#43. It is an unfinished society that we offer the world-a society that is forever committed to change, to improvement and to growth, that will never stagnate in the certitude of ideology or the finalities of dogma.
Robert Kennedy
#44. People are beginning to doubt the moral certitude of people on the right, especially the far right.
Tom Brokaw
#45. Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude.
Joyce Carol Oates
#46. The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.
Eliot Spitzer
#47. Women will always choose the man over the best friend. This is a sad but true fact of life, and it's only this certitude that makes me unashamed to admit it.
Megan McCafferty
#48. I had come for certitude, but the poetic speech does not give certitude.
Walter Brueggemann
#49. Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
Ray Bradbury
#50. From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
Joseph Heller
#51. It's one of the greatest comforts of working in ministry: the unspoken certitude that your spouse did not marry you for your money.
Mark Hart
#52. Having the certitude of a succession of days ... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me.
Paul Gauguin
#53. The very unfortunate result of this preoccupation with order, control, safety, pleasure, and certitude is that a high percentage of people never get to the contents of their own lives!
Richard Rohr
#54. I can say with unwavering certitude that I have never started a pint of Ben 'n Jerry's ice cream that I didn't finish in its entirety within 6 minutes.
Gregor Collins
#55. Eragon doubted that he would ever like an Urgal, but the iron certitude of his prejudice only a few minutes before now seemed ignorant, and he could not retain it in good conscience.
Christopher Paolini
#56. Whether we admit it or not, there comes for everyone the moment when personal existence must be anchored to a truth recognized as final, a truth which confers a certitude no longer open to doubt.
Pope John Paul II
#57. One of the most constant characteristics of beliefs is their intolerance. The stronger the belief, the greater its intolerance. Men dominated by a certitude cannot tolerate those who do not accept it.
Gustave Le Bon
#58. Ambiguity supposes eventual resolution of itself whereas certitude implies further ambiguity.
John Ashbery
#59. Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered; because the truth that can come from my pen is like a shard that has been chipped from a great boulder by a violent impact, then flung far away; because there is no certitude outside falsification.
Italo Calvino
#60. True faith is not hard at all. It is soft in its resilience, yielding in its certitude - the vehicle for absolute grace.
Karen Maezen Miller
#61. THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science.
Ambrose Bierce
#62. Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude.
Jim Leach
#63. There is no other possibility for possessing certitude with regard to one's life apart from self-abandonmen t, in a continuous crescendo, into the hands of a love that seems to grow constantly because it has its origin in God.
Pope Benedict XVI
#64. I have concluded the evident existence of God, and that my existence depends entirely on God in all the moments of my life, that I do not think that the human spirit may know anything with greater evidence and certitude.
Rene Descartes
#65. Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#66. There lay certitude; there, in the daily round.
All the rest hung on mere threads and trivial contingencies; you couldn't waste
your time on it. The thing was to do your job as it should be done.
Albert Camus
#67. I had escaped the snare of certitude that I welcomed so avidly at first and entered, via the name of Jesus, the wide and comprehensive company of Jesus.
Eugene H. Peterson
#68. An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.
Jon Meacham
#69. My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.
Robert Anton Wilson
#72. Silence - people are afraid of it - they feel the need to make small talk, anything, just to break the stillness. I don't feel any such need. To me, silence brings about peace and certitude.
Henry Martin
#73. A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
Andre Gide
#74. Sincerity is the certitude that we speak the truth (and who can be certain of that?), but there are many kinds of honesty, and they do not always agree with one another.
Mesa Selimovic
#75. In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction and antisocial behavior, discouraging any responsibility for one's actions..
Don Henley
#76. Securities, certitudes and peace do not lead to discoveries.
Carl Jung
