Quotes About Uncertainty

I was not a bastard, I was not a bastard, I was not, I was not, I was not, unless, somehow, I was.

It was an act of faith, and faith would not be faith if it was not hard, if it was not a test, if it was not an act of willful ignorance, of believing in something that can neither be predicted nor proved by any scientific metric.

The burning ambition of my life was to marry her one day. The consuming worry of my life was to whether she would agree.

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

Don't make decision at night for it may be changed in the morning.

Don't say your day is good till evening, for you don't know what may happen before it.

Life is a bank where everybody has deposited time but will never know the balance.

Life is just like a running train without driver, we can't jump out of it to find the platform of our choice.

Life is like a wheel. Now up, now down; we cannot always expect to be on top.

Nobody in this world can explain you the meaning of life, but I can explain it only in four words and these are – I also don't know.

None of us knows who we are.

There are people in the world having greater faith in those things which they do not understand.

You know whom you love, but you can't know who loves you.

You will have to walk on the road yourself, it will not tell you what lies ahead.

People reasoning on essences may sometimes substitute certitude for probability, even very great probability. But we know nothing about essences and accordingly lose our certitude.

When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'

Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." (James 4:13-15)

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me want to dream.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of stars makes me dream

Isto não vai nada bem, estou mais triste e chateado do que poderia dizer e não sei mais onde estou.

E se, quando jovens, podemos acreditar que pelo trabalho assíduo podemos satisfazer nossas necessidades, isto atualmente torna-se cada vez mais duvidoso.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. Vincent Van Gogh

I believe that if we knew everything we should attain some serenity. Now, having as much of that serenity as possible, even when one knows little or nothing for certain, is perhaps a better remedy for all ills than what is sold in the pharmacy. Much of it comes by itself, one grows and develops of one's own accord.

The present time is so interesting if one considers that it is possible we shall witness the beginning of the end of a society.