Uncertainty Quotes

Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty.

We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.

I tend to integrate poet and scholar is by ironizing the scholarship. My hope is to disturb that space between the two so they can coexist in a kind of mutual uncertainty.

To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors.

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.

Creativity is an unending exercise in uncertainty.

We have to learn to live with uncertainty.

In a world filled with misery and uncertainty, it is a great comfort to know that, in the end, there is light in the darkness.

This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses.

I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns.. your thought process goes on.

Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.

The shadow of fear and uncertainty lies over most of us; for us the future seems far from being as clear and open as we believed it would be.

Easier, sometimes, to gulp down giant spoonfuls of uncertainty than it is to swallow throat-clogging capsules of what really is.

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

One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.

I am living proof that uncertainty is vastly underrated and often times a blessing in disguise.

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic.

A review of the science suggests that uncertainty is so high as to raise a good prospect that mandatory green house gas reductions will produce little or no environmental benefit.

Uncertainty is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom.

I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon is a mystery.

To thrive in this new age of hyper-change and growing uncertainty, it is now an imperative to learn a new competency - how to accurately anticipate the future.

In times of uncertainty, wait. Always, if you have any doubt, wait. Do not force yourself to any action. If you have a restraint in your spirit, wait until all is clear, and do not go against it.

And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.

The substantial uncertainty about the path of asset price movements going forward necessarily reduces the case for altering policy in advance of the move.

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

Decreasing economic growth and increasing inequality leads to increased uncertainty.

Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid.

Uncertainty is the necessary companion of all explorers.

To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets

Standing alone,eager to just believe,it's good enough to be what you really are,but in your heart,uncertainty forever lies,and you'll always be,somewhere on the outside.

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

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.

Simply put, ObamaCare cost Americans jobs through uncertainty and now implementation threatens even more jobs. No wonder the majority of Americans continue to oppose it.

The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.

Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.

Decisions are the endless uncertainties of life that we'll not know if they're right until the very end, so do the best you can and hope its right.

Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before.

Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life.

When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.

The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.

In moments of uncertainty...i mmerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.

A time of uncertainty, of not knowing exactly where we're headed, or what kind of choice to make is a Zen moment.

Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.

If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.

I think the biggest challenge and the biggest uncertainty for everyone is the economy.

If we get total certainty, we get … bored out of our minds. So, God, in Her infinite wisdom, gave us a second human need, which is uncertainty. We need variety. We need surprise.

Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.

Whatever way uncertainty is approached, probability is the only sound way to think about it.