Quotes About Uncertainty

I can't say I understand any of it, myself,' said Banks. 'Me, neither,' said Gerry.

In contrast, the a/theistic approach can be seen as a form of disbelieving what one believes, or rather, believing in God while remaining dubious concerning what one believes about God (a distinction that fundamentalism is unable to maintain).

But the moment we experience the ground beneath our feet dissolving and feel the loss of all certainties is the moment we touch upon the experience of the Cross.

When much is known, procedural planning approaches work perfectly well. When much is unknown, they do not.

Beginning to reason is like stepping onto an escalator that leads upwards and out of sight. Once we take the first step, the distance to be travelled is independent of our will and we cannot know in advance where we will end.

Beginning to reason is like stepping onto an escalator that leads upward and out of sight. Once we take the first step, the distance to be travelled is independent of our will and we cannot know in advance where we shall end.

Nothing is whole, not for too damned long. The world is half night.

But you do not reject the supernatural out of hand,' Sears said. 'I don't know if I do or do not,' I said. 'Like most people.

people who thought he was God yesterday morning, did a 360-degree turn twelve hours later.

You all know what's been happening to us. We sit around here and talk like a bunch of ghouls. Milly can hardly stand having us in my house anymore. We weren't always like this – we used to talk about all sorts of things. We used to have fun – there used to be fun. Now there isn't. We're all scared. But I don't know if some of you are admitting it. Well, it's been a year, and I don't mind saying that I am.

As readers, we are content, even delighted, to be lost, in the sense that we are both absorbed and uncertain of where we are or where we are going, as long as we feel confident we are following a guide who has not only the destination but our route to it clearly in mind.

A prerequisite for finding our way through any story or novel is to be lost: the journey can't begin until we've been set down in a place somehow unfamiliar.

Just because we cannot imagine our actions leading to disaster, it doesn't mean that such a disaster cannot happen.

Randomness is a general model that scientists use for things they do not understand.

Centuries of travel yore suggest that when we no longer know where to turn, our real journey has just begun.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. SØREN KIERKEGAARD

Remember that scene in the first Indiana Jones movie when someone asks Indy what he's going to do next, and he replies, "I don't know, I'm making it up as we go along." That's how I view leadership. It's an act of controlled improvisation, a Thelonious Monk finger exercise, from one moment to the next.

one can never predict or foresee what lies ahead when it comes to humans and religion.

that she was suffering from a brain tumor. It was temporarily under control, but she expected it would eventually kill her. She

Until you caught a serial killer, it was impossible to know for sure that he existed.

It is wise to take admissions of uncertainty seriously," Daniel Kahneman noted, "but declarations of high confidence mainly tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his mind, not necessarily that the story is true.

The ultimate goal of science is uncertainty's total eradication.

We just never know. We think we do. We think we have life figured out, and in our arrogance we become hard. But life has a way of humbling us, of softening us.

On the other side is chaos, libertinism, vice, danger and the unknown. And the unknown will always remain so to those who do not choose to explore it.