Uncertainty Quotes

Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence.

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

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

I think the economy is the point of greatest uncertainty for most people.

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

The uncertainty of events disturbs the purest enjoyments.

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.

Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of things.

Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones.

Uncertainty causes more anxiety than perhaps any other single factor.

Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.

In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.

Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.

The nature of the spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty.

Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change.

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

Over a very small number of rolls of the dice, the uncertainty principle is very important.

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.

Fashion is like life. It needs fear and uncertainty if you are to move forward.

Leadership is about uncertainty. Deal with it

A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty

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

Real frontier-busting math explores new worlds . . . . If you can communicate that experience, somewhere between math and uncertainty, life experience provides the balance.

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

Our scientific advances will be merely obscene unless they help the large part of our world's population emerge from miserable uncertainty and debilitating terror.

Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

You [should] persist even though there are some short-term stresses and even though there is some uncertainty, because it's the right thing to do.

To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.

A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.

Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.

To try is to invite uncertainty. Where confidence goes, success usually follows.

Your future is uncertain, and I can tell you nothing that can help you. You are singular and dangerous, and so it is that you are sought by both the Dark and the Light.

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey. But even in failure, we can trust that He’ll do more than we expect.

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.

My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty.

Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.

I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won't have that person around me.

Hardly anything else reveals so well the fear and uncertainty among men as the length to which they will go to hide their true selves from each other and even from their own eyes.

What we fear is what we do not know. When something is cloaked by the darkness of uncertainty, it's a mystery. Allowing light to penetrate that darkness makes everything clear.

We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.

In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.

Uncertainty in a leader is always magnified in the heart of the follower.

The goal of leadership is not to eradicate uncertainty but rather to navigate it.

Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership; it underscores the need for leadership.

About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box.