Quotes About Uncertainty

Certainly more dangerous

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans. —Woody Allen

On the day I learned of Vati's death, my outlook on life changed profoundly. I had discovered that a good day could never be trusted to remain good, indeed, a good day would inevitably lead to disaster, and I must always be prepared for the worst. The glass was now half empty.

We did not evolve by precautionary living, nor by hanging back for lack or certainty.

You cannot be firmly certain about anything. You can only have enough courage and strength to do what you consider to be right. Maybe it turns out that was wrong, but still you would have done his, and it is most important.

Janet was a tower of strength to me during the miserable time of uncertainty that preceded the divorce. She never pushed me; never urged me to agree to anything foolish in order to hasten the divorce; seemed perfectly willing to continue our irregular arrangement for the rest of our lives. If Gertrude was making life harder for me, Janet was making it easier to an even greater extent.

It frustrates and fascinates me that we'll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of historians and scientists and poets, there are some things we'll just never know. What the first song sounded like. How it felt to see the first photograph. Who kissed the first kiss, and if it was any good.

Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.

One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time.

We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.

Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.

I was still hesitant to let myself let go, because I still believed in the fragility of happiness.

Who can ever know what path to walk on when all of them are either crooked or broken? One just has to walk.

ONE OF THE UNSETTLING THINGS about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn't sure when or where it was going to end.

Fear stalks the land. (As usual; so what else is new?)

This is how things come to pass in the world,' one of the princes is supposed to have said. 'Blood flows one way in life and another way in song, and one never knows which flow is the right one.

It would be a simple matter if lives were lived by hindsight. There is much we would not begin, if we could see how it would end

Cracks especially. You have to be careful of the cracks.. Sometimes they are disguised as something else. A doorway, or a smile or even a winking eye. And if you fall through them, you never know were you will end up.

It would be a simple matter if lives were lived by hindsight,' Rushton said. 'There is much we would not begin, if we could see how it would end.

J.P Morgan, when asked what the stock market will do, replied,