Quotes About Uncertainty

What am I now, Alai? Still good. At what? At--anything. There's a million soldiers who'd follow you to the end of the universe. I don't want to go to the end of the universe. So where do you want to go? They'll follow you. I want to go home, thought Ender, but I don't know where it is.

I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.

But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war?

You can't rule out the impossible, because you never know which of your assumptions about what was possible might turn out, in the real universe, to be false.

Love is random; fear is inevitable.

Withholding a decision is a decision.

we're all trying to decide wether your scores are up there are a miricule or a mistake. a habit

No one with him to tell him he must eat, he must go practice, he must sleep. Freedom. The trouble was, he didn't know what to do.

Maybe I will do what I want with my life! The only problem is that I have no idea what I want to do with it.

There are hundreds of possible causes for every effect, and a hundred possible effects for every cause.

In my dreams, said Ender, I'm never sure whether I'm really me.

He was a soldier, and if anyone had asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, he wouldn't have known what they meant.

You don't know what would have happened if I hadn't pushed. Nobody knows. I did it the way I did it, and it worked. Above all, it worked.

If you wait until you know everything, you never do anything.

No matter how well you know what a person has done and what he thought he was doing when he did it and what he now thinks of what he did, it is impossible to be certain of what he will do next.

Nobody has control of anything. We're all beggars at the throne of fate. But sometimes he has mercy!

Who was more cursed, the one who died, unknowing until the very moment of his death, or the one who watched his destruction as it approached, step by step, for days and weeks and years?

How could Quing-jao know what the gods meant by anything?

he would have been lost except he started out lost and when you start out completely lost, it's hard to get loster.

I want to go home, thought Ender, but I don't know where it is.

There's never enough information...That's the great tragedy of human knowledge. No matter how much we think we know, we can never predict the future.

Heck, everything we decide will be wrong, said Step, because no matter what we do, something bad will happen later. So I refuse to regret any of it.

Nobody has control of anything," said Petra. "We're all beggars at the throne of fate. But sometimes he has mercy!

Anton: "You're asking me?" Sister Carlotta: "God not being convenient, I ask a fellow mortal.