Quotes About Uncertainty

To play it safe is not to play.

Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.

Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.

Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected.

Happiness, greatness, pride-nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

The way to be safe is never to be secure.

We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

Security is a kind of death.

Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life than of death.

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.

In forty hours I shall be in battle, with little information, and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions, but I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that, with God's help, I shall make them and make them right.

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral, and subject to chance.

There is nothing certain about war except that one side won't win.

With most people, doubt about one thing is simply blind belief in another.

I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.

Now that I'm here, where am I?

The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.