Quotes About Uncertainty

Certainty a strange Ferris wheel of a statement!

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.

We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.

Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk?

Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues?

Everything may happen.

Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.

There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who have no clue what I'm talking about.

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge

No one can tell what the future holds, you're backs to the corner, you make the choice of how it goes.

You may be wrong, but you may be right.

Don't try and understand this with your mind. There will be no absolute knowing, no certainty in these thoughts and philosophies and ideas.

I still feel-kind of temporary about myself.

Philosophy begins when you don't know where to look for an answer.

To teach how to live with uncertainty and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can still do for those who study it.

Philosophy is doubt.

In other words apart from the known and the unknown what else is there?