Quotes About Uncertainty

Vê, meu amor, vê como por medo já estou organizando, vê como ainda não consigo mexer nesses elementos primários do laboratório sem logo querer organizar a esperança. (...) É uma metamorfose em que perco tudo o k tinha, e o que eu tinha era eu - só tenho o k sou. E agora o que sou? Sou: estar de pé diante de um susto. (...) Não entendo e tenho medo de entender, o material do mundo me assusta, com os seus planetas e baratas.

o que parece falta de sentido – é o sentido. Todo momento de "falta de sentido" é exatamente a assustadora certeza de que ali há o sentido, e que não somente eu não alcanço, como não quero porque não tenho garantias.

It's like having a coin and not knowing in which country it is legal tender.

Terei que ter a coragem de usar um coração desprotegido e de ir falando para o nada e para o ninguém? Assim como uma criança pensa para o nada. E correr o risco de ser esmagada pelo acaso.

Qué viene después de la felicidad?

I become so scared when I realize that over a period of hours I lost my human constitution. I don't know if I'll have another one to replace the lost one with. I know that I'll need to take care not to surreptitiously use a new third leg that can grow back in me as easily as a weed, and then call that protective leg "a truth".

Who hasn't ever wondered: am I a monster or is this what it means to be person?

Inside the dark we are unprotected, and our troubles always come close.

The truth of our existence is that it is uncertain.

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

He said, I don't know what the water wanted. It wanted to show you no one would come.

What is wrong with you? This question gets stuck in your dreams.

Enter the title) "...It takes a personal question (or moment of doubt could be another way of thinking about it) and interrogates lines of inquiry surrounding that question, historically and psychologically. After a while the answer is known but it no longer matters because the expanding life of the question is what keeps us reading. This is the kind of book that demands I slow down the closer I get to its end, preparing myself for the loss of the speaker in my world.

I don't know what's right. I don't know what's wrong," she said with a shrug. "I don't think anyone knows for sure. They may think they know; they may even convince themselves of it. But sometimes you can't be sure until much, much later when you see how it all worked it out. You just have to do the best you can and hope that it all works out.

un point assez mystérieux et en tout cas non élucidé de la nature humaine : l intolérance a l incertitude, intolérance telle qu elle entraine beaucoup d hommes a souffrir les pires et les plus réels des maux en échange de l espoir, si vague soit-il, d un rien de certitude.

Anxiety has forged another weather.

But of, but what, but whether, but who, but nevertheless, but insofar, but why, but otherwise, but even if-

Let's get going," Towser urged. "Where do you want to go?" "Anywhere," said Towser. "Just start going and see where we end up. I have a feeling… well, a feeling-" "Yes, I know," said Fowler. For he had the feeling, too. The feeling of high destiny. A certain sense of greatness. A knowledge that somewhere off beyond the horizons lay adventure and things greater than adventure.

Putin learned from reading the William King and David Cleland textbook in the 1980s and 1990s, planning for uncertainty is the most important element of strategy.

Could be. Unlikely, but

You are only lost if you knew where you were going.

No one knows why we do it and when we've done it rarely does anyone want it. Yet still we do it. That's what being a writer is.

A flood can come at anytime without warning. A lightning can strike without a caution. An earthquake can shake mountains and divide the lands without a sign. Only faith is stable, if and when you have it.

Like most pictures that I've done, I've had no idea whether anyone would ever want to see 'em. But I figured, I'd like to see it.