Quotes About Uncertainty

Over the years it [the National Committee for Mental Hygiene] has championed for the promotion of 'mental health' despite the fact that nobody knows what it is or how to do it.

God, I am afraid he won't give me his answer today. If only somebody would help me - it is all so terribly depressing.

God help us we're in the hands of engineers.

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

I never know tomorrow what I might be doing. I just ask God to lead me and show me and direct me and help me and support me in it. So I just wait to hear the call.

I knew that even if I was able to call for help, I was in a place so remote that it wasn't likely there would be anyone who could help me. And even if there were, it could take weeks.

The problem with most people who say they believe, however, is that said belief is only a thin layer of solid ice which rests over a vast ocean that is likewise deep with non-solid disbelief.

We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.

History shows you don't know what the future brings.

In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.

Yesterday is history Tomorrow's a mystery

History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.

If we have no other reality beyond the illusion, you too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

The ifs and buts of history...form an insubstantial if intoxicating diet.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.

We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

We are about to change history, said Saphira. We're throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is. Ah, but what a glorious flight! (Eragon to Saphira)

I couldn't say who I am, I haven't the remotest notion of myself; I am someone without antecedents, without a history, without a country, and on that I insist!

History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.