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Quotes About Uncertainty

How dark are all the ways of god to man!
~ Euripides
When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.
~ Francis Bacon
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Life's a lottery, and man should make up his mind to the blanks.
~ George Colman the Elder
There are more men threatned then stricken. [There are more men threatened than stricken.]
~ George Herbert
This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.
~ H. G. Wells
Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.
~ Mark Hodder
The edge of a precipice... That is the place where man sits throughout his life!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
In the bed of suspicion, no cushion can make a man to sleep
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man is never out of range of surprises!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man is not a ship in harbour; Earth is not a ship in harbour; even Universe is not a ship in harbour! No safe harbour for anything exists!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Precipices are the routine routes of the unroutine men.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.
~ Menander
I'm not a betting man, and even if I was, I certainly wouldn't bet on this! I would not bet on the Best Actor.
~ Michael Caine
Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Horace smiled. "Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring."
~ N.D. Wilson
Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.
~ Neil LaBute
No drowning man can know which drop of water his last breath did stop.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable. [Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]
~ Plautus
I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.
~ Orson Scott Card
The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.
~ Owen Feltham
No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who knows why men do anything?
~ Richard Adams