Quotes About Uncertainty

A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.

No man knows distinctly anything, and no man ever will.

And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?

Man, wear your seat belts. That's all I can tell everybody. You never know.

The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.

The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.

The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.

Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!

Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart today. Tomorrow belongs to Allah.

It's a funny old world. A man's lucky if he gets out of it alive.

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.

If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.

We have no idea what's natural and what's man made. [...] There is no fingerprint of human-caused warming.

But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!

Europe has certainly lost confidence in itself. This was something that, when I was a young man, we never imagined would happen.

I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda.

No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I.

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.

There's only one thing that can save a man from madness and that's uncertainty.

The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved.

Sometimes, if you want to live and breathe tomorrow, you have to dive into the black depths today, and that is a leap of faith - faith in your U-boat, and your crew - beside which the saints' religious epiphanies amount to nothing.