Sentence examples for false certainty from inspiring English sources

Individual priests and lawyers might be perfectly open-minded but their professional background could curse them with dogma, prejudgment and false certainty.

Devastated by his half-brother's premature death, which occurred when Geoff was a freshman in high school, and wearying of the false certainty of mathematics, he had been drifting toward a career in the ministry for several years.

Particularly so before a general election, when the stalls are being set out for all sorts of new policies or tax gifts, with the false certainty that they will be delivered in the next parliament.

It's false certainty that trips us up, in both investing and life.

Such false certainty might be pretended by selecting, for example, one silvicultural strategy as irrevocably established and ignoring the multitude of possible management paths.

So what advantage is there in a false certainty that strands us with people like that?

Are the unpredictable and incalculable doomed to be displaced by false certainties and familiar comforts?

The calculated ambiguities of literature, rather than the false certainties of ideology, are its raw material.

But what the robust, sharp lyrics of In Memoriam teach me, every time I return to them, is that the false certainties of evangelical Christianity are as arid as the shrill negativism of the materialist outlook.

Things may have gotten somewhat better in economics since, he writes, but the false certainties of those mathematical geniuses who created the 2008 derivatives debacle show that we still have a lot of relearning ahead.

Indeed, she may be at her most authoritative when studying the emotional pressure points of Latin American politics -- the way machismo helped to corrupt Che Guevara, for instance, and the ease with which justifiable cynicism can turn into a "longing for false certainties" and then surrender to a would-be hero.