Quotes About Uncertainty

Vast ills have followed a belief in certainty.

In the first sense, probability means the degree of belief or approvability of an opinion—the gut view of probability. Scholars use the term "epistemological" to convey this meaning; epistemological refers to the limits of human knowledge not fully analyzable.

The prevalence of surprise in the world of business is evidence that uncertainty is more likely to prevail than mathematical probability.

The Commanding General is well aware that the forecasts are no good. However, he needs them for planning purposes.

Professor Bhegad gasped. "Massa treachery . . . Torquin's driving . . . not sure which is worse.

But this time I see a new person. Silent. Still. Someone I believe I know. WHO ARE YOU? I move closer but the face is shrouded, the features blurred as if seen through a dirty lens. I'm tempted to run away, but I don't. I know where running leads. To the hole. To death. I know I can no longer fear.

If we're going to die either way, there's no difference. At some point you have to trust somebody.

I DON'T THINK so." I blinked upward into Cass's face. His hair was haloed by a fluorescent ceiling light. I was in a glaringly bright room with puke-green walls and a tiled floor. My arm was attached to an IV stand, and by the wall was a wheeled table with beeping medical machines. "Huh?" I said. "You called me Mom. I said, 'I don't think so.'" "Sorry," I said. "The Dream.

And die here at age fourteen?

I may be dead by the time you return.

the stock market demands conviction as surely as it victimizes the unconvinced.

The great joke is that the next time is never like the last time, and yet we can't help readying ourselves for it anyway. This all reminds me of the Mayan conception of the universe.

It is difficult to adjust because I do not know who is adjusting; I am no longer that old person and not yet the new.

Maybe you're just wandering around out here with your thumb up your ass, waiting for some answer that might let you off the hook.

It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.

Worrying is the interest paid on a debt you may not owe.

What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.

The lake is always east. East is always the lake. Anywhere else he's ever been he never knows where he is.

If we all knew the consequences of every decision we made, we'd probably never make any.

When it comes right down to it, we fear the unknown more than anything else.

Any idea where he might go if he did run away? Did he talk

Our doubts are traitors / And make us lose the good we oft might win / By fearing to attempt.

about Barber and Kelly? Banks couldn't tell. And if he

England is broken. And I don't know if they'll ever be able to fix it.