Quotes About Uncertainty

Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black. We can't tell if it will survive us. But we can be sure that it's the last thing to go.

The biggest compendium is life; one day it's Cluedo the next Snakes and ladders

What is manifold is often frightening because it is not neat and simple. Men prefer to forget how many possibilities are open to them.

I do not rest on the broad upland of a system that includes a series of sure statements about the absolutes, but on a narrow, rocky ridge between the gulfs where there is no sureness of expressible knowledge but [only] the certainty of meeting what remains, undisclosed.

There are not many road signs in Russia, you know. He laughed. If you don't know where the road goes, you shouldn't be on it.

No phantom of the future cast a shadow upon our sunny path

Cuanto mayor sea el grado de estrés, más temerosos, inseguros e inciertos nos sentimos y más irracional tiende a ser nuestro comportamiento.

Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

And what is it that preachers do, to this very day? Do they interpret and expound the Scriptures? Yet if the Scripture they expound is uncertain, who can assure us that heir exposition is certain? Another new exposition? And who will expound the exposition? At this rate we will go on forever. In short, if Scripture is obscure or ambiguous, what part is there in God's giving it to us?

This is the manner that God uses with all of us to strengthen and test our faith, in that He treats us in such a way that we do not know what He will do with us. He does this only so that we will commend ourselves to Him, yield ourselves only to His kindness, and not doubt that He will give us what we desire or something better.

Elle n'avait pas de réponse, mais, même si c'était un peu effrayant, ce n'était pas grave. Les réponses sont un frein à la croissance et à la connaissance.

It has led us to be obsessed by data rather than by the significance of knowledge and to be determined to prove things, rather than to experience and risk experiencing things as part of an adventure of faith, coupled with uncertainty.

Getting confirmation of one's own creation is based solely on uncertainty and a lack of focus in one's own thinking.

Man geht auf ein Loch zu, weiß, dass man hineinfallen wird, und fällt hinein.

Auf jeden Fall werde ich, oder wenigstens will ich, wenn nicht, dann doch, allerdings müsste ich, und kann nicht.

people who feel she ain't

Susie: Maybe we're all making everything up as we go.

There's the waiting for something you don't know is coming. You don't even know what it is exactly, but you're hoping for it. You're imagining and living your life for it. That's the kind of waiting that makes a fist in your heart.

Her ?ey dönü?ecek, de?i?ecek ve dengede duracak gibi görünüyordu. Molly kendini haz?r hissetti. Fakat ne için, emin de?ildi. Ama içinde bir ?ey aç?lm??t? sanki. Hayat?n tuhaf bir düzeni vard? ve onu kendi etraflar?nda hissedebiliyordu.

A genius is someone who can tolerate the discomfort of uncertainty while generating as many ideas as possible.

flip side: its growing vulnerability. A failed launch, a

Dad reckoned there was a rational explanation for everything, even things that made no sense at all. UFOs, ghosts, God - they're just the names people came up with for stuff they haven't worked out yet.

The streets were more empty than usual—everyone who had someone was probably at home, cuddling them up, waiting for the bombs to fall or the shooting to start or the diseases to spread or just for the chips in their heads to catch viruses, melt, and drip out of their brains.

in the cold you wrap me. in my uncertainty you listen. in all my joys you celebrate. at every turn you meet me with competence and grace. what a fine dance we have together.