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Quotes About Uncertainty

We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past.
~ Susan Beth Pfeffer
It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.
~ Benjamin Graham
I've got two young kids. I don't know what the future holds.
~ Robbie Coltraine
Analytical tools have their limitations in a turbulent world. These tools work best when parameters are known, assumptions are minimal, and the future is not fuzzy.
~ John P. Kotter
The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.
~ William Irwin Thompson
I can never predict my future because a big part of my future is already behind me.
~ Unknown
You always romanticize the past as soon as the future begins to frighten you.
~ Rick Remender
I don't know what the future holds. I just try to do roles that I haven't done before.
~ Peter Facinelli
Making predictions is tough. Especially for the future.
~ Yogi Berra
It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.
~ E. H. Harriman
Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change ... we are in collision with tomorrow.
~ Alvin Toffler
Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.
~ Walter Lord
I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.
~ Nigella Lawson
It was easy not to think of my future; I didn't have one.
~ James Ellroy
There is already a generation of European graduates who feel they have been robbed of the better future they were led to expect. They are members of a new class: the precariat.
~ Timothy Garton Ash
The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.
~ Joseph Barber Lightfoot
We have the same problem as everyone else: It's very hard to predict the future.
~ Charlie Munger
It's education that's meant to take us into this future that we can't grasp.
~ Ken Robinson
Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!
~ John Dryden
There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.
~ Joe Haldeman
Without a future well designed we take hesitant steps.
~ Jim Rohn
The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.
~ Aeschylus
When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.
~ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
~ Vauvenargues