Quotes About Uncertainty

We couldn't possibly know where it would lead, but we knew it had to be done.

People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.

When Columbus started out he didn't know where he was going, when he got there he didn't know where he was, and when he got back he didn't know where he had been.

All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.

The true test of character is ... how we behave when we don't know what to do.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy, but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain.

A vague uneasiness; the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Life is a jig saw puzzle with most of the pieces missing.

Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Life's a very funny proposition, after all.

Oh! Let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about.

A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather . . . what comes after No man knows.

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

The moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

I sort of feel like Cindy Crawford's new husband on their wedding night. I know what's expected of me. I'm just not sure I've got the ability to make it interesting.

There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.

Doubt breeds doubt.

An agnostic found himself in trouble, and a friend suggested he pray. "How can I pray when I do not know whether or not there is a God?" he asked. "If you are lost in the forest," his friend replied, "you do not wait until you find someone before shouting for help."

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.