Quotes About Ambiguity

sometimes i am not sure.if i am writing the poemor the poemis writing me.

It's a great privilege to not know where you'll end up, just where you're headed. It's the only way to get there.

In between trash and treasure.

..Breaking yet budding, dying yet living - standingamongst ruins and rage, reaching for possibilitiesplaying hard to get.

The absence of a message sometimes is a presence of one.

Maybe I should stop while I'm aheadNay, I swim with sea-demons no sweet summer tuned radioover my sunless desertscapehow does it burn without the sun?

Maybe she loved me, maybe not –who knows?Not even the godscan see intoa human heart –it's that dark.

I didn't know what it was, who I was or who he was. I just knew what we could have become as one.

Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.

DEFINITENESS OF DECISION. The man who wavers in his decisions, shows that he is not sure of himself. He cannot lead others successfully.

I want to live happily in a world I don't understand.

This idea that in order to make a decision you need to focus on the consequences (which you can know) rather than the probability (which you can't know) is the central idea of uncertainty.

When things go our way we reject the lack of certainty.

No person in a transaction should have certainty about the outcome while the other one has uncertainty.

he tends to mistake the unknown for the nonexistent.

The Black Swan asymmetry allows you to be confident about what is wrong, not about what you believe is right.

So let us call here the teleological fallacy the illusion that you know exactly where you are going, and that you knew exactly where you were going in the past, and that others have succeeded in the past by knowing where they were going.

This idea that in order to make a decision you need to focus on the consequences (which you can know) rather than the probability (which you can't know) is the central idea of uncertainty. Much

understanding how to act under conditions of incomplete information is the highest and most urgent human pursuit.

There is this error of thinking that things always have a reason that is accessible to us—that we can comprehend easily.

In practice, randomness is fundamentally incomplete information.

The first leg of the triplet is the pathology of thinking that the world in which we live is more understandable, more explainable, and therefore more predictable than it actually is.

Our problem is not just that we do not know the future, we do not know much of the past either. We

He defaults to thinking that what he doesn't see is not there, or what he does not understand does not exist. At the core, he tends to mistake the unknown for the nonexistent.