Quotes About Uncertainty

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories,--the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt.

Man, I'm sick of doubt.

The man who wishes to understand himself thoroughly must with his unrest, uncertainty, and even his weakness and sinfulness, with his life and death, draw near to Christ.

You cannot be a man of faith unless you know how to doubt.

A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.

No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.

America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.

A man who will not leave his room because he does not know how, or is afraid to open the door, is trapped just the same whether or not the door is locked.

The desert is so vast that no one can know it all. Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at sea; no one knows when they will return.

People are scared man, they're scared of the void.

God laughs at men's plans.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.

As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.

Well, you may not know this, but there's things that gnaw at a man worse than dying.

It affords a violent prejudice against almost every science, that no prudent man, however sure of his principles, dares prophesy concerning any event, or foretell the remote consequences of things.

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased. Then again, I don't know a thing about my illness; I'm not even sure what hurts.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure.

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

There are men who would be afraid to commit themselves on the doctrine that castor oil is a laxative.

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.