Best 305 quotes in «uncertainty quotes» category

Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better.

Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.

Change is all about motion, motion is all about uncertainty and we are deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty.

Creativity is an unending exercise in uncertainty.

Don't call it uncertainty-call it wonder.

Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.

In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.

In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope.

In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that i will come to no harm.

I think that cynicism is the enemy. Cynicism thinks it knows how things work. "Oh yeah, you know how that works." I think uncertainty is the thing you have to keep embracing. You have to keep saying, I actually don't know, and going out is going to tell me something every time.

Or maybe you’re merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.

Just remember that everyone is struggling; everyone is living with fear and uncertainty and it doesn't matter what their politics are.

Knowing where you are going takes the uncertainty out of getting there

It is an act of courage to acknowledge our own uncertainty and sit with it for a while.

It's only in uncertainty that we're naked and alive.

Major organizational changes create uncertainty.

My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.

Not only do you have to trust the definite, you must also trust the uncertainty.

One thing you can rely on is that there will always be uncertainty.

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty

She hesitated, then reached out to Jared in her mind, and uncertainty washed away in the wave of reassurance she got back.

The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty

The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.

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

There is no such thing as zero uncertainty.

The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.

Tolerance for uncertainty is the prerequisite to succeeding.

Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk.

The only certainty is uncertainty

You get such a kick and then it's all over. That's good ground for uncertainty and depression. I usually burst into tears.

When energy prices go up, the difficulty of projecting demand also goes up - uncertainty goes up.

When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free." -Vergere

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

A cheerful readiness is what seems honest now, facing an uncertain future with humor, grace and dignity.

A blind man sees with his cane, like all the rest of us.

And back up they would go, not knowing where or when they would be able to land again.

Allowing people to contribute in your life is a leap of faith. And that comes gradually with self actualization and overcoming fears of uncertainty.

A lot of what people did and said when they "predicted" things, Morey now realized, was phony: pretending to know things rather than actually knowing things. There were a great many interesting questions in the world to which the only honest answer was, "It's impossible to know for sure".

And how would one know, when our knowledge is restricted to what we hear and see? That makes one’s journey through life like a blind man traveling on a dangerous road without a companion. What makes the test even more difficult is that man can spend his life on great causes without knowing for sure if his endeavor is for good or evil!

And could it be true without other awful things being true as well?

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 all.

And then it struck him what lay buried far down under the earth on which his feet were so firmly planted: the ominous rumbling of the deepest darkness, secret rivers that transported desire, slimy creatures writhing, the lair of earthquakes ready to transform whole cities into mounds of rubble. These, too, were helping to create the rhythm of the earth. He stopped dancing and, catching his breath, stared at the ground beneath his feet as though peering into a bottomless hole.

And then I couldn't see (Banawa) any more because the plane tilted up and we flew straight into a fierce light. This must be what it's like to be reborn. First, there you are in the darkness of your mother's womb, not knowing anything and not wanting anything to change. And then suddenly you are out, naked and starving hungry in a shining new world.

And where are you going?" "I dunno," said the Spangled Boy. "I'm running from, not to." Book: Wet Magic, Chapter 5.

A plague rides on the air here. The smell of rot! This is Doal's realm. Can't you feel it? The keep is doomed, don't you see? No, I will not pass through this gate. There is a disease in there I will not touch.

A woman who had fallen out of love with her life

As far as I can reckon, a woman can stand absolutely anything under God's heaven that she knows; but she just up and can't stand the littlest, teeniest, no-account sort of thing that she ain't sure of. Answers may kill 'em dead enough, but it's questions that eats 'em alive.