Quotes About Uncertainty

Who can know when his world is going to change? Who can tell before it happens, that every prior experience, all the years, were a preparation for . . . nothing.

There were stories that the King was dying, that he was already dead, that he had been dead long since, that he was fine.

Actually, of course, it didn't explain anything, but whenever doctors are confused about something, which is really more frequently than any of us would do well to think about, they always snatch at something in the vicinity of the case and add, That explains it.

Who can know when his world is going to change? Who can tell before it happens, that every prior experience, all the years, were a preparation for . . . nothing... who can sense revelation in the wind?

If you write movies, you never know who the enemy is. Someone is going to fuck you, that's a given.

he could never quite figure out how he happened to sire his daughter, but he knew, deep down, that it must have been some kind of wonderful mistake, the nature of which he had no intention of investigating.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Damn the Absolute!

Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so.

Belief and doubt are living attitudes, and involve conduct on our part. Our only way, for example, of doubting, or refusing to believe, that a certain thing is, is continuing to act as if it were not.

The question of being is the darkest in all philosophy.

psychology is passing into a less simple phase. Within a few years what one may call a microscopic psychology has arisen in Germany, carried on by experimental methods, asking of course every moment for introspective data, but eliminating their uncertainty by operating on a large scale and taking statistical means.

For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers - and one comes true.

He walked with equipoise, possibly in either city. Schrödinger's pedestrian.

I couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid.

He knows religion is bollocks," Collingswood said. "He just wishes he didn't.

I needed to be alone for whatever would happen. I knew that something would as certainly as if this were a last chapter.

Fortune-telling was quantum betting, a competitive scrying of variably likely outcomes.

Shadows fell on them like predators as the light went out.

Is it dangerous? Hmm. Well, define 'dangerous.' Is a knife 'dangerous'? Is Russian roulette 'dangerous'? Is arsenic 'dangerous'? ...It really depends on your perspective.

It was a very inexact apocalypse.

Billy felt like a lid unsecured and banging in the wind.

ANY MOMENT CALLED NOW IS ALWAYS FULL OF POSSIBLES. AT

Sham felt sure there was something he fervently wanted to do & to which he was excellently suited. Which made the more frustrating that he could not say what it was.