Quotes About Uncertainty

So difficult is it for us to know, with the dead as with the living, whether a thing would cause them joy or sorrow!

These were happy, cheerful moments, innocent in appearance but hiding the growing possibility of disaster: this is what makes the life of lovers the most unpredictable of all, a life in which it can rain sulphur and pitch a moment after the sunniest spell and where, without having the courage to learn from our misfortunes, we immediately start building again on the slopes of the crater which can only spew out catastrophe.

But first whom shall we send In search of this new world, whom shall we find Sufficient? Who shall tempt, with wand'ring feet The dark unbottomed infinite abyss And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way, or spread his aery flight Upborne with indefatigable wings Over the vast abrupt, ere he arrive The happy isle?

All is best, though we oft doubt, what the unsearchable dispose, of highest wisdom brings about.

All of me then shall die: let this appease The doubt, since human reach no further knows.

Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get---people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep....

Walk around feeling like a leaf. Know you could tumble any second, then decide what to do with your time.

Life is incredibly contingent and unexpected.

Not knowing doesn't mandate anxiety; rather, it instills confidence, and confidence is crucial to good performance.

Not knowing doesn't mean you're condemned to anxiety; rather, not knowing calls for trust, and trust is crucial to good performance. Uncertainty is essential to the game.

Welcome to the human race. It is somehow essential to human life as God has ordained it that we can know the final score of yesterday but not tomorrow. It doesn't mean we're condemned to anxiety. It does mean this: If you're looking for certainty, you've chosen the wrong species. You can walk by faith, but not by sight; not down here.

But a philosopher named William James responded that sometimes Clifford's advice is bad strategy. He said doubt is the wrong alternative when three conditions are met: when we have live options, when the stakes are momentous, and when we must make a choice.3

I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.

John Patrick Shanley

Doubt requires more courage than conviction does, and more energy; because conviction is a resting place and doubt is infinite - it is a passionate exercise.

trust no one, everything breaks, nothing works as advertised, and if anything can go wrong, it will.

Everything we're doing is freakin' iffy. That's what makes it so much fun.

Impossible to know. The thing is, you take a fork in the road, it doesn't always work out for the better . . . but sometimes it does. It must.

Flowers wouldn't be buttering their toast after the next election, but Pweters might be.

I'm so looking forward to this—it's an adventure. I'm praying that the kid's healthy, that's all. Boy, girl, I don't care.

be somebody dead . . . maybe

Robertson was in the operating room and no word on his condition was coming out. A bloody-handed nurse, who'd taken him in, stood washing her hands, and when Lucas asked, she said, "I've seen worse who lived. But then, I've seen better who died." No help there.

We heard that you think somebody might try to hit Mrs. Bowden. Is that right?" Monroe asked, as he unlocked Palmer's front door. "We don't know the exact situation, but it's worrisome," Lucas said.

Lucas was forced to admit it: "No. Not absolutely sure. But pretty sure. The other possibility is that the people who paid for the porn to be dumped on Porter Smalls, knowing that doing so involves a number of felonies, are breaking the link between themselves and the pornography. Breaking the link very professionally. I did the obvious: I looked for professional killers. The only ones I could find"—Lucas nodded at Carver and Dannon—"are employed by you.