Best 305 quotes in «uncertainty quotes» category

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

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.

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.

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

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

Major organizational changes create uncertainty.

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

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

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

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

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

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

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 only certainty is uncertainty

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

Tolerance for uncertainty is the prerequisite to succeeding.

There is no such thing as zero uncertainty.

The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.

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

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.

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

Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.

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".

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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.

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.

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.

As he rose to go and held Louise's hand and gazed at her he felt for a moment his old love for her taking possession of his whole being. They looked at each other. I feed upon this looking, thought Clement, but does she? I don't know, and I cannot ask. I am terrified of saying something which would wound our whole precious relationship. We are well as we are. I love her, that's all, that is my drama.

As he passed a hand over his eyes, I recalled the he could not have slept more than twenty hours in the last seven days. For the first time since I had known him, Sherlock Holmes appeared to be exhausted by work rather than inaction. "Because if I am right," he murmured, "I haven't the first idea what to do.

As if the uncertainty is an absolute certainty.

As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil, but good versus fools who think they are good.

A woman who had fallen out of love with her life

A veces es preferible afrontar la peor de las certezas que estar condenado a una incertidumbre perpetua.

A world full of "certainties" All the plans, all the vanities. Where black covers the white Suited in "confidence"- the constant fight. A million roads I dream to take One destination, knowing not I turn where. A green veil covers for two years, some two decades. But the "plan" awaits, new roads to make. I pant, I struggle, I do my best While they say, "You are, dear, but so inadequate".

Because I thought it was still possible everything was all right. Why did I think that? Because I had not heard otherwise. I was in the middle of a mystery.

Because you're always learning, the chief lesson remains: you still know nothing.

Being with someone who is not sure of you is dangerous to your mind, heart and soul.