• ...human beings have religious needs. They have a need for a feeling of certitude in their minds about things they cannot control and they do not fully understand, and with humility, they admit they do not understand...

  Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)

  Carroll Quigley
  American historian and theorist
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. understand
2. certitude
3. humility
4. cannot
5. about
6. fully

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...human beings have religious needs. They have a need for a feeling of certitude in their minds about things they cannot control and they do not fully understand, and with humility, they admit they do not understand... by : Carroll Quigley

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