Quotes About Uncertainty

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

The unknown is very appealing to me. I like to be surprised. I love the idea I might know less at the end of reading something than I do at the beginning.

If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.

Sometimes you just have to let go of the old and trust that something better is going to take its place, even if it's scary to face change and the unknown.

I'm very confident in myself and in my ability, but in boxing there's always the unknown.

I think fear of the unknown is the scariest thing.

When I joined WKRC, they were very concerned over my ability to ad lib or speak extemporaneously, which was an unknown factor up until that point.

I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.

To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded.

I'm scared of the unknown future.

When I first became a head coach, even back in Minnesota, I'm going to go with the known and leave the unknown alone.

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.

The interesting thing about Bettie Page that I discovered was to leave the mystery. She always retained a little mystery. Let there be some unknowns.

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

I like the unknown. I like mystery.

Every movie is unknown.

I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.

I'm not working now, so I'm sort of facing the unknown.

The unknown is very scary.

The unknown is always frightening.

There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.

The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.

Science is about exploring the unknown and cannot offer guarantees.