Quotes About Uncertainty

The message had been delivered. All they could do now was wait. Valden hated waiting.

Educators must resist the quest for certainty. If there were certainty there would be no scientific advancement. So it is with morals and patriotism.

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.

We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know.

You find peace by coming to terms with what you don't know.

Dangling in space I realised I could always slip out of the harness. I looked forward to the peace of the great release.

I've made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind.

Faith is tossed about by various doubts, so that the minds of the godly are rarely at peace.

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.

We may have hell if we have war, and we may have hell if we have peace. But if we have no vision for what we do, we have hell anyway.

.it's allright not to know all the answers..

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: either there will be ground to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Someone asked me once what my philosophy of life was, and I said some crazy thing. I should have said, how the hell do I know?

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

Life is so brief and time is a thief when you're undecided.

From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.

Life is a school of probability.

I don't know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.

History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.

Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.