Quotes About Uncertainty

A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity.

Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know

When I was younger I thought I'd meet the man of my dreams, get married and have a child, but it all went higgledy-piggledy. Never say never, though.

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

A man had need to fear this most of all that he fears not at all.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.

I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.

Chances rule men and not men chances.

Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go.

In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a mere man of letters, and I do what I can with those subjects.

Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.

Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]

There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the second case.

What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.

No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what

As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.

The open road is the school of doubt in which man learns faith in man.

A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.

The most creative or versatile to date...I don't know, man. That's a good question. I didn't really think about that.

But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.