Quotes About Uncertainty

I have always known that at last I would take this road, but yesterday I did not know that it would be today.

The beginning of all wisdom is to understand that you don't know. To know is the enemy of all learning. To be sure is the enemy of wisdom.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

It's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.

The farther you go, the less you know.

I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.

When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.

There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck

A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.

Embrace the wisdom of uncertainty.

We want to go forward, but which way are we facing?

Stars are not okay.

I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.

quoted Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, once accused of being an "adventurer." His response was, "An adventure is what happens when exploration goes wrong.

Awed, I asked, 'How could you possibly have known enough about Jarel to trust him?' 'I didn't. I trusted you.

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know. "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said. "She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.