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Certainty Quotes
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination"
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John Keats
"It is [the] certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel."
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Karl A. Menninger
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."
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Bertrand Russell
"The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything"
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Isabel Allende
"Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know."
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Michel de Montaigne
"When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness"
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Mary Shelley
"Love is the answer and you know that for sure"
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John Lennon
"It is remarkable that the human mind can manage to be so wrong yet so confident"
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"When you believe in a thing believe in it all the way implicitly and unquestionable"
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Walt Disney
"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt"
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Rene Descartes
"The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt"
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Bertrand Russell
"A belief in hell is the only one, among numerous metaphysical beliefs, which has always seemed to me to be entirely certain."
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Aldous Huxley
"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth and truth rewarded me"
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Simone de Beauvoir
"Doubt is but another element of faith"
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Saint Augustine
"I don't want to believe I want to know"
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Carl Sagan
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