Quotes About Uncertainty

Every important choice we make is being guided by one of two places: either it is an act of faith or it is an act of fear. Faith opens the door to a new future.

There's great release, really, in not seeing into the future.

The future is better dealt with using assumptions than forecasts.

Replace what you don't know about the future with what you do know about God!

It is one of God's blessings that we cannot foreknow the hour of our death; for a time fixed, even beyond the possibility of living, would trouble us more than doth this uncertainty.

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive.

If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game.

The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilization is at stake.

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

Forecasting is very difficult, especially when it involves the future.

We have no way of knowing what lays ahead for us in the future. All we can do is use the information at hand to make the best decision possible.

The future is always changing. If we had no choices, there'd be no point in living.

I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.

Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.

The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it

If you know you can do it - if you can already chart every day in your future - then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance.

Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind is it desirable to know the future.

As I think about the future the tears will come out again.

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. [Lat., Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere: et Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro Appone.]

The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. -Bobby Goodspeed

Menacing lines of black tomorrows on the horizon.