Quotes About Uncertainty

Magellan realized that the empty chairs made for an ominous sign.

The farther south he went, the more concerned Magellan became that he had accidentally passed the strait.

Even the daring Schöner hesitated to depict the western coast of South America;

After six months at sea, Magellan's ability to lead the armada was still in grave doubt.

The will covered every eventuality that might befall a great explorer such as Magellan—except

By this time, he had lost two ships. The three remaining vessels ventured into the passage without benefit of maps.

its currents, storms, and reefs, it is unlikely that he would have dared to mount an expedition.

The uncertainty, the void, is the perfect place from which to create. It is the place where you can re-invent yourself.

It is best to live in a state of perplexity and fluidity, like water, than to live in a hardened and doctrinal state of believing one knows everything.

The English language has such terms as: dawn, dusk, first light, daybreak, twilight, crepuscule and evenfall. Yet, not one of these terms outlines an absolute demarcation point between dark and light.

At first, you must be willing to enter a state of liminality. In other words, you must be willing to enter a state in which you stand on the threshold and are no longer grasping the worldviews and sense of yourself that you held in the past, nor yet completely ready to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. You stand on the threshold, the doorsill, neither in one world nor another. This can be a frightening place to be.

There is great hazard in assuming one knows what 'It' is. The more you try to identify 'It' the more one confuses the issue. Beware of those who say they've bottled 'It' and sell so-called 'It'. 'It' is not for sale.

Logic doesn't work well for such nonlinear systems as chess and life.

Everyone who dies out there dies of confusion.

Shit happens, and if we just want to restrict ourselves to things where shit can't happen... we're not going to do anything very interesting.

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.

Le plus difficile, c'est la non-certitude, cette probabilité, même infime, que vous puissiez la retrouver encore. Cette brèche vous laisse dans l'errance, vous empêche de commencer à faire votre deuil.

Things are going to happen that you can't control. You can't let it bother you. You have to try your best.

When you're on your own, you look for signs. Sometimes you make them up, sometimes they're actually there, but most of the time you can't tell the difference from the two.

What a ridiculous sentiment. 'Adventures' is just a different name for 'terrible ideas.

How rarely boyhood loves to paint in glowing tints his future bright, a picture where no line is faint--whose very clouds are touch'd with light. And girlhood hails a world unknown and reads it in her own glad dreams, as lilies see themselves alone reflected in their azure streams. But rosy clouds that morning brings, ere noon may deepen into thunder--and life's dark stream has sterner things than silver lilies growing under.

The most self confident aces began to wonder when their turn would come.. Faced by the empty chairs of men you had laughed and joked with at lunch. And, miraculously, you were still there. Until tomorrow..

We love, while knowing that someday our love might be lost forever. We laugh as we stride along, even while recognising that doom lies at the end of the road. We give, while comprehending that in the end 'twill all be taken away. we are nothing less then heroes.