Uncertain Quotes

Knowledge breeds doubt, not certainty, And the more we know the more uncertain we become.

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

We live in changing times, and many people experience the challenges that come with it. In the face of uncertain futures, no one will know what to expect.

I don’t want to throw everything away for something uncertain.

One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.

It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.

Rumor with her ten thousand tongues is diffusing her uncertain sounds in almost every ear.

Even the best-natured people, if uninstructed, are always blind and uncertain. We must take pains to instruct ourselves so that ignorance makes us neither too timid nor too bold.

While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.

Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet

Be patient with all that is uncertain in your heart...do not search for answers, which will not be given: you will not be able to live them, and its importat to live everything.

The unanswerable mysteries... the attitude that all is uncertain... to summarize it - the humility of the intellect.

Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.

there is nothing so uncertain and slippery as fact.

Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying

Any violence which does not spring from a spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only rest in a fanatical outlook.

We are self-uncertain creatures, and we may Yea, even when we know not, mix our spites And private hates with our defence of Heaven.

Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.

Throughout American history, there have been moments that call on us to meet the challenges of an uncertain world, and pay whatever price is required to secure our freedom.

Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.

Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked.

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

The rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame, preacherman seeks the same, who'll get there first is uncertain.

It's unclear how air strikes on our part can succeed unless the Iraqi army is willing to fight, and that's uncertain given the fact that several Iraqi army divisions have melted away.

Man, I hated not being able to figure someone out. And from the slightly uncertain look he gave me as we all went to class, I suspected he felt the same way.

Faculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it—fragmentary and uncertain though it is—that distinguishes man from all other animals.

Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.

History constantly reminds us that in an uncertain world there is no visibility of prospects. Future earnings cannot be predicted with accuracy.

The marathon is an opportunity for redemption. Opportunity, because the outcome is uncertain. Opportunity, because it is up to you, and only you, to make it happen.

In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope as surely as we need food and water, love and friendship.

Life is too uncertain... You must seize happiness where you find it.

What is life? The joy of the blessed, the sorrow of the sad, and a search for death. And what is death? An inevitable happening, an uncertain pilgrimage, the tears of the living, the thief of man.

There are many things that are still uncertain and that probably nobody knows, because so many factors determine what form the transformation of consciousness on our planet takes.

Creativity asks you to enter realms with uncertain outcomes. People want to create a safe life for themselves so they try to live without fear and they end up killing their creativity in the process.

How will it be when one of us alone Goes on that strange last journey of the soul? That certain search for an uncertain goal, That voyage on which no comradeship is known?

The optimist regards the future as uncertain.

If you act impetuously, it will be uncertain, and you'll know it. It just won't feel right. It is better to wait.

I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.

The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.

Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.

No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all.

I do not know that there is a more certain sound than Senator Kennedy. I cannot imagine a more uncertain sound than Senator Kerry.

I'm often uncertain of what's expected of a movie.

When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, [I] submit myself to my instinct to decide for me.

Nothing so uncertain as general reputation. A man injures me from humor, passion, or interest; hates me because he has injured me; and speaks ill of me because he hates me.

Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.

In this uncertain world, the food is disposable. It is the wrappings that are permanent.

There is a stark difference between fear and uncertainty, Sarai. You fear nothing but are uncertain of everything.