Uncertainty Quotes
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All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash. (Quote by - Ovid)
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man that function Is smothered in surmise and nothing is But what is not. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
This I ever held worse that all certitude, To know not what the worst ahead might be. (Quote by - Algernon Charles Swinburne)
When the mind is in a state of Uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side. (Quote by - Terence)
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase. (Quote by - William Congreve)
Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure Uncertainty. (Quote by - John Finley)
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. (Quote by - R. I. Fitzhenry)
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of Uncertainty. (Quote by - Jacob Bronowski)
An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties. (Quote by - Djuna Barnes)
We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and Uncertainty. (Quote by - Douglas Adams)
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
There is no such Uncertainty as a sure thing. (Quote by - Robert Burns)
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope. (Quote by - Henri Frederic Amiel)
uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security. (Quote by - John Allen Paulos)
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying. J. (Quote by - Paul Getty)
He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty. (Quote by - Seneca)
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. (Quote by - Ursula K. LeGuin)
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. (Quote by - Erich Fromm)
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions. (Quote by - Edward Coke)
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. (Quote by - Vincent van Gogh)
In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain. (Quote by - Pliny the Elder)
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
I think the worst thing this nation could do for humanity would be to leave any uncertainty as to our will, our purpose and our capacity to carry out our purpose. (Quote by - Hubert H. Humphrey)
I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, "I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here." (Quote by - Oprah Winfrey)
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)
All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty. (Quote by - Ezra Pound)
Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty. (Quote by - John Huston Finley)
Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood. (Quote by - Marquis De Sade)
The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are. (Quote by - Robert Browning)
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas -- uncertainty, progress, change -- into crimes. (Quote by - Salman Rushdie)
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. (Quote by - Sir William Osler)
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic. (Quote by - Hazel Henderson)
In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope. (Quote by - O. Carl Simonton)
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. (Quote by - Erich Fromm)
To teach how to live with uncertainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can still do for those who study it. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Unrest and uncertainty are our lot. (Quote by - Johann von Goethe)
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
