Quotes About Uncertainty

The Knights' Code," which he had learned by heart from Scouting for Boys, a book he frequently turned to in times of uncertainty, even now in his self-exile from the movement, demanded that "Chivalry requireth that youth should be trained to perform the most laborious and humble offices with cheerfulness and grace." He supposed entertaining Izzie was one of those occasions. It was certainly laborious.

Was there a kind of lottery (Reggie imagined a raffle) where God picked out your chosen method of going—"Heart attack for him, cancer for her, let's see, have we had a terrible car crash yet this month?

One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot. "One must avoid dark thoughts at all costs.

Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

Of the future, man knows least; yet, about this, he worries most.

Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.

The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn.

I am nowhere. You can call me the man in the middle.

The bravest men are subject most to chance.

That power Which erring men call Chance.

Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.

I'm not a betting man.

What is clear to one man may be doubtful to another.

I don't know, man, I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian.

They call me the confuser. Is he a man... is he a woman? Ooh, I'm not sure if I mind.

The best plans of men and mice often go awry.

Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of . . . other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I do not know.' Upon these questions, this is the creed of intelligence.

A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries.

A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity.

Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.

To the man who is afraid everything rustles.

God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.

Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.

Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.