Quotes About Uncertainty

Not a single one of us knows what the future holds. The unexpected happens even when we've got everything mapped out.

Even if you get the dream, you don't know if it will stay true.

Everyone's sleeping through life Afraid that their questions Just might have answers

I've never done it before—I don't like doing things I've never done before.

Honestly, which one of us can rightly claim that they are absolutely confident in what they do and have no doubt whatsoever in their knowledge or decisions?

One minute, he thought, you're allowed the illusion that things are pretty much the way they've always been and always will be. Next time you turn around, some pinhead rips the world out from under you, and the weirdness starts pouring in from every direction …

Who's to say what's tied to all this?" Gab asked. "What's natural and what's not? If it's real then it's part of the reality.

Crap happens in life. It could happen tonight.

Sometimes your heart can lead you to a dead end.

As pessoas têm medo das mudanças. Eu tenho medo que as coisas nunca mudem.

Mal tinha chegado ao país e queria encontrar todas as portas abertas ou explodi-las a dinamite. Eu já sabia que as portas estavam apenas encostadas. Talvez amanhã eu me visse eventualmente perdido num labirinto de 700portas.

"We've taken the world apart," she says, "but we have no idea what to do with the pieces…"

Statistics is a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.

It's difficult to decide whether growing pains are something teenagers have — or are.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.

We shall advance when we have learned humility; when we have learned to seek truth, to reveal it and publish it; when we care more for that than for the privilege of arguing about ideas in a fog of uncertainty.

If there's a 50/50 chance that a forecast will go wrong, nine times out of ten it will.

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

I did not say she was alive, my child... I go no further than to say that she might be Un-Dead.

The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.

Does anyone know if we can shower now? Or should we just keep washing our hands?

Coronacation 2020 begins.

But we are never prepared for what we expect...

The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.