certitude

• “This is also the first time I have publicly used the word certitude since hearing it for the first time a few days ago.”

  The Huffington Post: Jim Moret: An Attitude of Certitude

• “It is worthy of notice, as regards the use of English terms, that Newman reserves the term certitude for the state of mind, and employs the word certainty to describe the condition of the evidence of a proposition.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux

• “All eyes, however, were staring at him in certitude of expectancy.”

  Chapter 11

• “I hope in an era where sound bites pass for wisdom and where certitude is somehow a virtue that readers will reflect a little on the ambiguities of the human heart.”

  Patricia O'Brien discusses her novel Harriet & Isabella, about the trial of Henry Ward Beecher, brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

• “This sort of moral certitude is exactly what turns off many veteran teachers in Washington.”

  Crusader of the Classrooms

• “One way to immunize ourselves against misplaced certitude is to contemplate — even to savor — the unfathomable strangeness of everything, including ourselves.”

  "The Oddness of George Will"

• “The way pundits get their certitude is by closing their ears and assuming they know it all.”

  Gracias, extranjero amable

• “All one can say with certitude is that different women define and relate to feminism differently.”

  Feminism's Identity Crisis

• “The word certitude indicates both a state of mind and a quality of a proposition, according as we say, "I am certain", or, "It is certain".”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux

• “One way to immunize ourselves against misplaced certitude is to contemplate— even to savor— the unfathomable strangeness of everything, including ourselves.”

  inkblurt · Rationalist Conservatism

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