Quotes About Uncertainty

I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.

At the kernel of every promise, there is always a little doubt, like a fragment of shell that clings to the broken nut.

Naked in death upon an unknown shore.

We knew this wasn't going to be easy, but people before us have done it, and so can we. Nothing in this life is guaranteed. You make the best choices you can and try your hardest." He paused. "I reckon we can trust God to take care of the rest.

You are going to the fields strewn with corpses, How can I not feel a pang inside? Though I would swear to follow you, I am afraid that green will turn yellow

She's lost her links to her old world, but she has never felt close to the one she's in now. She's torn in different directions, at a loss.

are moments, like this, that change everything. What had seemed solid and unchanging crumbles in an instant and nothing will ever grow there again as it had before. She once more closed her mouth, her eyes, her nose, and swore she'd get out, get out without betraying herself, and above all without being cured. She felt, rather than

The time for hope is gone, and come for fear.

We cannot depend on change, but we can depend on surprise.

Kitleler her zaman böyledir. Belirsizlikten her zaman korkarlar, bu yüzden aç?k bir yalan? ula??lmaz gerçeklere ye? tutarlar.

Ilustra esta declaración con las palabras de Jacques Madaule: "Sé que moriré, pero no lo creo".2

We stayed here for only a few hours. We rested and went on. But the camera snatched this fraction of a second from the eternal flow of time and froze it forever. At this moment we didn't know that in a few hours we would fall into an ambush. At this moment, while we were filling our canteens from the stream, we didn't yet know that we would stay in the mountains for three days without a drop of water. We didn't yet know anything …

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

She knew that nothing she could imagine could approach the strangeness of the expidition's first contact with non-Terrestrial beings. She could not predict what would happen. It was the sense of immersing herself in strangeness that she sought, knowing she would have to meet the reality with equanimity, and wing it from there.

Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty."

Lennon said that life's what happens when you're making other plans.

Sure, that could be. Or maybe they're in another town and couldn't get back to Paraiso. I imagine they're not allowing traffic to come toward the fire,

Saturday the weather couldn't decide if it was ready to fully entertain winter or if we were still stuck in the fall." "...winter showed up in an angry, punishing fury...

Hey, there, little fella!" he called. I looked at him uncertainly. What kind of a person was this? What would those hands be like? Would they push me aside, like the first man I had known? Or would they be patient and gentle? "You lost, fella? You lost?" I wasn't sure about the hands yet, but the voice was kind. And he was talking right to me. The first man had never done that. And he'd never kneeled down so that he was close to my level, either.

The truck growled and roared and I was pretty sure it was going to eat me.

It's the fear of the unknown that keeps a person from starting

The most important figures needed for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable.

Whenever one is imagining a bright future, the next disaster is just around the corner.