Quotes About Uncertainty

I'm 37 years old and don't have a steady paycheck.

I've never really been in a steady place.

Normally, when I'm not performing or stealing, I second-guess myself; I have doubts.

There's nothing so interesting as a steam roller that's about to be derailed.

The 20s are like the stem cell of human development: the pluripotent moment when any of several outcomes is possible. Decisions and actions during this time have lasting ramifications.

It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years.

Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because I haven't lived that moment yet. I always feel very insecure and I get very excited.

If there is one thing a reader should take away from this book, it is that there is little certain about our nation except that it remains an experiment that requires our serious and sustained attention to thrive.

It is within my mind that this quarrel rages, an untidy battle whose frontiers I cannot measure.

Better hazard once than always be in fear.

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.

Yes, Germany is dark, and Berlin is darker. But it is not so clear in Berlin what part of the dark is now faux dark and what part of the dark is real.

Perspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter.

In the end, no one knew what caused madness.

The hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of Time and Chance, except, perhaps, fair play.

Tell me now, Angel, do you think we shall meet again after we are dead? I want to know. He kissed her to avoid a reply at such a time. "O, Angel--I fear that means no!" said she, with a suppressed sob. "And I wanted so to see you again-- so much, so much! What--not even you and I, Angel, who love each other so well?

I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

A great leap in the dark

Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark

There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

Would it have made a difference? This is the question we always ask after we have given up.

The avowed goal of most college students today is preprofessional training or professional credentialing, even if they have no idea what their profession is likely to be.