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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

Yet if all reality is subjective, all certitude is impossible. — Robin Paul Wood

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

Mature psychological health cannot exist unless we are capable of doubting any form of conceptual certitude about ourselves or anything else. — Richard Moss

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes. — Joseph Heller

It is important to know that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but in fact, certitude and the demand for certitude! — Richard Rohr

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude. — Honore De Balzac

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

Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude. — Jim Leach

Certitude drives people mad. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Ambiguity supposes eventual resolution of itself whereas certitude implies further ambiguity. — John Ashbery

She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude. — Bill Bryson

Securities, certitudes and peace do not lead to discoveries. — Carl Jung

I can't say with certitude. — Anthony Weiner

Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives. — Georges Braque

Thus the unfacts, did we possess them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our certitude ... — James Joyce

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

It is not doubt,is certitude that drives you mad. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

Having the certitude of a succession of days ... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me. — Paul Gauguin

People are beginning to doubt the moral certitude of people on the right, especially the far right. — Tom Brokaw

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

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

I had come for certitude, but the poetic speech does not give certitude. — Walter Brueggemann

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

Accept and express your underlying certitude, and it shall be worldwide sagacity. — Ogwo David Emenike

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia. — Robert Anton Wilson

Certitude is strength and suspicion is worthless, and worry over suspicion is something less than that. I — R.A. Salvatore

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude. — Joyce Carol Oates

I don't like quintessential certitude. — Louise Bogan

Faith is nothing other than the certitude that God speaks truth. — Andrew Murray

THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science. — Ambrose Bierce

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

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