Uncertainty Quotes

We're in a free fall into the future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast. ...

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copie...

I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won't have that p...

She's sure, absolutely sure, that what she's waiting for will happen, just the way she wants it to; ...

You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill...

...but the loss of a memory, like the omission of a phrase during reading, rather than making for un...

What need of prompt or hint when it is open to yourself to discern what needs to be done - and, if y...

To understand this new frontier, I will have to try to master one of the most difficult and counteri...

No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have...

The trait [Morey] looked for was awareness that they were seeking answers to questions with no certa...

A lot of what people did and said when they "predicted" things, Morey now realized, was phony: prete...

Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to b...

No peace is possible between the novelist and the agélaste [those who do not laugh]. Never having he...

...the ratings agencies' problem was in being unable or uninterested in appreciating the distinction...

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the ...

The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and ...

Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, wh...

I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked ...

We must content ourselves with the mystery, the absurdity, the contradictions, the hostility, but al...

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question.

Ideally, the pursuit of truth is said to be at the heart of the intellectual's business, but this cr...

In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might d...

In your diary, you quoted old Jiko saying something about not-knowing, how not-knowing is the most i...

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life....

If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.

And of course I didn't know who would marry me now that I'd been where I had been. I didn't know at ...

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

He took his hands off the oars and pulled in the mooring rope. If I make a couple of loops, he thoug...

The unknown...the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground o...

Not only do I not know what I believe, but also I cannot know for sure that I believe. How can I def...

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, ...

I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.

On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and d...

That, of course, depends entirely on who you mean by 'they'. It's a very vague term. Who is or are '...

The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our...

Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how c...

An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the ...

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the cont...

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the i...

Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is...

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But ...

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.(Translation: It is not certain that everything is unce...

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading thro...

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

I'm comfortable with the unknown -- that's the point of science. There are places out there, billion...

Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hop...

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fa...

Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed. Like Schrö...

The death of God left the angels in a strange position.

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

Was it a doubt - a fear - a wandering uncertainty seeking rest, but finding none - so tear-blinded w...

He looked around. The room, a few suitcases, some belongings, a handful of well-read books— a man ne...

Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. Peopl...

For others, as for ourselves, we must trust him. If we could thoroughly understand anything, that wo...

She told her father Mr. Abram Colhard that she did not like it at all being one being living then. H...

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some sto...

My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journ...

And then it struck him what lay buried far down under the earth on which his feet were so firmly pla...

Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that...

History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We kee...

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

You ask me why I don’t love you, but surely you must believe I am very fond of you and if to desire ...

If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

A woman who had fallen out of love with her life

Having all the answers just means you've been asking boring questions.