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I can't say with certitude.
It is certain because it is possible.
I don't like quintessential certitude.
Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude.
Securities, certitudes and peace do not lead to discoveries.
We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create
Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.
Reject cynicism. Reject certitude. And don't be a jerk. Be a good guy.
Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.
Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude.
People are beginning to doubt the moral certitude of people on the right, especially the far right.
We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.
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.
Perhaps if there were less certitude about our climate future, more Americans would be interested in having a reasoned conversation about it.
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.
The word "concluded" is a trick word. It's designed to attach authority and ontological certitude to whatever follows, when it's just another way of stating what somebody thinks.
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.
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.
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.
It is difficult to predict technology more than 10 years out with any certitude, but what I observe is that change and innovation happens earlier and faster than we expect. We are constantly surprised at what technology can do.
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.
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.