Quotes About Uncertainty

It's impossible to predict how the heart heals or how long it is going to take.

There is a (slight) chance that I might be going to hell.

We can't plan life.All we can do is be available for it.

Faith would not be neccesary if one could be sure about everything.

faith would not be necessary if one could be sure about everything.

Anxiety is an extension of the dynamics of fear. It's the feeling of fear without an awareness of the object of your fear. All you know is that you're fearful, but you can't specify exactly what you are afraid of. You just worry about everything.

What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

The world is like a cucumber—today it's in your hand, tomorrow up your arse.

Las estrategias, por tanto, no deberían entenderse como medios para conseguir el control sobre determinadas situaciones, sino como modos de afrontar situaciones en las que nadie tiene un control total.

futilidad que las animaban.

Every once in a while I don't think it's a bad idea for lawyers to remember that what goes on, at least on some level of our brains, is that we have to imagine everything coming apart. ... It's what we are. Out of control, always prepared, Boy Scout control freaks.

personal confusion, search, and self-interrogation are more important than any answers could ever be.

I don't mind not knowing. It doesn't scare me. —RICHARD FEYNMAN

There were times when Pizlo knew he thought too much, and other times when he thought he knew too much. This time was neither of those.

You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

One never knows, do one?

After I squirmed into the snakepit of national politics, I realized that a ruler must equate the unpredictable with the unreliable. The future was too important to leave to whim.

have lifted the window-well grate and climbed through the broken window to the basement and still leave a

People are torn between the pathetic safety of not knowing, and the desire to know.

Breathless the earth seems waiting some wild blow, Dreaded, but far too close to ward or shun.

A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.

I have often wondered since at my own firmness. In that dreadful interview with my uncle I had felt, in the whirl and horror of my mind, on the very point of submitting, just as nervous people are said to throw themselves over precipices through sheer dread of falling.

That our intuition could lead us astray is troubling in direct proportion to the degree of trust we place in it. The solution would seem to be: Don't be overly trusting. Mix in a healthy dose of skepticism. But suppose we don't have a say in the matter? Suppose we're hardwired to trust—to believe in—our instincts, regardless of whether they're right? Suddenly the problem of not knowing becomes a lot more complicated.