Quotes About Uncertainty

I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.

Fear is the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.

Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same.

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

Sometimes I truly fear that I am losing my mind. And if I did it it would be like flying blind.

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

My biggest fear? My biggest fear would be turning into an inanimate object.

I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.

It's foolish to fear what we've yet to see and know.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

My only fear is the unknown.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.

Men fear most what they cannot see.

The fear that the universe is not what you assume it to be is very basic, especially when you know damn well it isn't what you assume it to be.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.

I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away.

Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.

We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known.

There can be no security where there is fear.

Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.

The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.