Quotes About Uncertainty

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

Free man is by necessity insecure; thinking man is by necessity uncertain.

Hope for a miracle. But don't depend on one.

Life guarantees a chance-not a fair shake.

Life is a perilous voyage.

You too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end.

You want to make God laugh? Tell him your future plans.

If I die, I forgive you: if I recover, we shall see.

Life has no romance without risk.

There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.

Diane von Furstenberg

To be alive at all involves some risk.

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.

One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature.

Danger can never by overcome without taking risks.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Life is either always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.