Quotes About Uncertainty

Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).

As people used to be wrong about the motion of the sun, so they are still wrong about the motion of the future. The future stands still, it is we who move in infinite space.

We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

Prediction is very hard, particularly when it's about the future.

Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization that the future is obscure and that survival is not assured.

The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb.

The past is made out of facts...I guess the future is just hope.

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

The future is bound to surprise us, but we don't have to be dumbfounded.

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

You just never know with contract situations and the whole business side of it. I'm here now and I'm happy to be here now. The future will take care of itself.

The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make.

The future is not what it used to be.

I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.

You know, I don't know what the future will bring, but I'm ready for whatever comes!

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.

The future is only scary if we try to avoid it.

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

If no-one comes from the future to stop doing it, then how bad of a decision can it really be?

Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that the engines are about to fail.

The future is going to take care of itself, like it always has.

The future's another country, man... And I still ain't got a passport.

The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present.