Uncertainty Quotes

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

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

The quality of your life is directly related to how much uncertainty you can comfortably handle.

What if rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, we accepted it and relaxed into it?

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

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

What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.

The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks.

When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.

Surfing is all about uncertainty. That feeling of taking a risk, that leap of faith every time I jump into the ocean, that paddle out among things unseen — all of these make surfing very special

There's only one thing that can save a man from madness and that's uncertainty.

[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

We must consider both the ultimate end and all clear sensory evidence, to which we refer our opinions; for otherwise everything will be full of uncertainty and confusion.

Keeping your mind open in the face of uncertainty is the single most powerful secret of unleashing your creative potential.

We have to be careful of not injecting more uncertainty than economy can handle

Audacity isn't the absence of uncertainty and ambiguity. Audacity is believing that God's promise is bigger than my 'perhaps'

Don't let uncertainty talk you into pursuing a backup plan instead of your purpose.

Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way

Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization that the future is obscure and that survival is not assured.

Most DRM solutions diminish the value of the product by either directly restricting a customer's use or by creating uncertainty.

Religious faith obscures uncertainty where uncertainty . . . exists, allowing the unknown, the implausible, and the . . . false to achieve primacy over the facts.

People dislike uncertainty so much that they will impose an order on it even when it doesn't exist.

People don't like uncertainty, and their minds are tools for making sense of the world, even when the world is senseless.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous... I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily lives.

The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.

Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.

Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.

I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty.

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.

There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.

Me? I stand for uncertainty, insecurity, bad taste, fun, and things that go boom in the night.

There is a big lesson in experiencing uncertainty and calamity with a sober focus - the most chaotic moments are the ones from which we can learn the most.

It is the job of leaders to eliminate uncertainty.

Uncertainty is a personal matter; it is not the uncertainty but your uncertainty.

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

One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.

It is in the realm of uncertainty, that your passion is found.

We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.

Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.

The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.

An obsession with control generally seems to reflect a fear of uncertainty.

I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved.

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

In conditions of uncertainty, humans, like other animals, herd together for protection.

The man who wishes to understand himself thoroughly must with his unrest, uncertainty, and even his weakness and sinfulness, with his life and death, draw near to Christ.