Quotes About Uncertainty

The doubt, like the mosquito, buzzes round my faith.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

As for the picture — I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

Parental Predictions. — Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11:30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.

Who put a "stop payment" on my reality check?

Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.

There is some chance of my retiring... And yet, though I thought such a proposal when first made was like a Pisgah peep of Paradise, I cannot help being a little afraid of changing the habits of a long life all of a sudden and for ever...

If you treat the unknown as a minefield and never enter, you may avoid getting blasted but won't ever get to run along with the butterflies.

The universe always wagers — life is risk.

We know not which stone the scorpion lurks under.

...there is not a man in the world who can tell to-day what he will do to-morrow.

Sometimes I feel like I'm going nowhere, in opposite directions.

I have learned to savor every minute of time with my four year old daughter not only because I know how quickly children grow up but also because I have no idea what state the world will be in when she is my age.

Dear Lord, here is something again that I don't know how to manage and can't do anything about. Won't You please take over, and help me to trust it utterly to You? Show me just what to say and do.

The tickets might be returned perhaps, but where would she go?

The trouble is we can't see the plan, and so we go fretting because it doesn't fit our ideas.

Indian summer is like a woman. Ripe, hotly passionate, but fickle, she comes and goes as she pleases so that one is never sure whether she will come at all, nor for how long she will stay.

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

Fabiano estirou o beiço, duvidando.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

Life is dangerous, she thought. No one survives it.

Everyone who had reason to work with him agreed that he'd changed. A lot of his confidence seemed to have gone. He was less sure of himself, less prepared to take a risk or two, somehow smaller. Maybe it was something that would pass, said some. Maybe not.

I'm not at all sure yet. I'm absolutely

You don't know if he's pissed or just laughing at you.