Quotes About Uncertainty

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

No one knows where we are going, the aim of life has been forgotten, the end has been left behind. Man has set out at tremendous speed- to go nowhere.

I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.

Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man.

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say that he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.

The man of faith who has never experienced doubt is not a man of faith.

A man is sometimes lost in a dust of his own raising.

Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust.

Euripides says,-Who knows but that this life is really death,And whether death is not what men call life?

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.

And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become.

Life is always uncertain, and common prudence dictates to every man the necessity of settling his temporal concerns, while it is in his power, and while the mind is calm and undisturbed.

What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?

Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.

The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's believe in the dignity and important of the question.