Uncertainty Quotes

Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.

Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.

We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.

Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety.

Moses became Americas true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.

Zizi was young and often confused about how to live his life, �and when he made a choice he clung to it with fierce resolve, �as if to beat his uncertainty into submission.

I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

You know, businesses hate uncertainty more than anything else.

Humans are wired to feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and contingency, and so we gravitate to a position after a short time even if we have no new information.

With people increasingly faced with turmoil, uncertainty and crisis, I wanted to create music that uplifts the listener and offers a sense of hope to prevail.

'In Utero' was the first time I'd made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear 'Pennyroyal Tea.'

Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art

Tolerance for uncertainty is the prerequisite to succeeding.

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.

I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.

Embrace the wisdom of uncertainty.

In the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, from the prison of past conditioning. Uncertainty is the fertile ground of creativity and freedom.

In teaching there can be too much emphasis on certainty and a proper appreciation of uncertainty is to be encouraged.

That's the beauty of life, the uncertainty that we experience, literally, as we go about our day-to-day activities. We're not certain of anything, so fear comes up very often. Fear comes naturally.

An all encompassing uncertainty on the part of any person is either a sign of utter stupidity or extreme intelligence. Only the not so dumb, or the not so smart, are ever certain about anything.

From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world, and there was nothing else.

hope and uncertainty [are] the twin ingredients necessary for romance to thrive. ... Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope, or fails as often, as love.

One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.

Assuredly of all earthly conditions uncertainty is the most unblest.

We've seen that in the past that where you've had uncertainty, and even where the Fed is raising rates, Treasurys rise as everybody heads for safety.

We're in a pretty tumultuous world, and there's a lot of uncertainty. Treasurys are where people go as one of the few safe havens in the world.

[L]eave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring a warlike apparatus at the moment of public danger.

There's a lot of uncertainty that's not clear in my mind.

Nothing is certain by uncertainty.

The place that I found where European musicians and American musicians come together is that odd middle world which is called uncertainty.

A little uncertainty is good for everyone.

Most business people today are not going to invest in the uncertainty that exists in America.

Major organizational changes create uncertainty.

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

Other people's belief changes you. We all have insecurity, and uncertainty, and to have that glow cast over you by somebody that you respect, makes a gigantic difference.

My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty and torture.

Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.

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

Uncertainty is inevitable at the frontiers of knowledge.

Many things are linked to being able to live with uncertainty, ...with paradoxes. But this can be a strength of an organisation and a situation.

If and perhaps.... The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action.

Photography was not invented to serve a clearly understood function. There was in fact widespread uncertainty, even among its inventors, as to what it might be good for.

A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.

When I do it [writing] by myself, there's a lot more terror and uncertainty.

When there's uncertainty they always think there's another shoe to fall. There is no other shoe to fall.

In a world of turmoil and uncertainty, it is more important than ever to make our families the center of our lives and the top of our priorities.

With uncertainty in oil markets, a buildup of speculative pressures and the large U.S. current account deficit, there is a real possibility that Paulson's crisis-management skills will be tested.

The uncertainty of our future is nothing more than a fog of breath on a windowpane.