Quotes About Uncertainty

The king of Siam once asked his wise men for a proverb that would be appropriate for any occasion. They suggested "This, too, shall pass". Well, in biochemistry an equally appropriate saying for all occasions is "Things are more complicated than they seem".

If you don't take risks, there's no room for luck. I took a chance. I got lucky.

Karl von Clausewitz states that in war, uncertainty, danger, and unpredictability are countered only through such moral forces of courage, self-confidence, esprit, and a sense of duty.96

However, once you realize the answer to most questions is, "It depends," you are ready to embark on the quest to figure out what it depends on.

The main issue is that putting yourself in a position to enjoy good luck also puts you in a position to lose.

I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.

In real crises, the successful leaders are usually the ones who cope best with ignorance and error.

Now that Olive was grown, I didn't know what to do with myself. You could build your life around one single thing, like a view or a child, but that was risky. You had so much to lose.

The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don't know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.

Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected.

Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and uncertainty, a world buffeted by large forces people neither understand nor control. But turn to the sports section and it's all different.

Is she dead?" called Zenda. Sort of," I shouted, "And the pizza's completely fucked too.

India returned to her kneading, but repeated under her breath, "I don't believe it, I don't believe it!

Sometimes, the greatest safety can be found in taking the right risk. Whether it be an individual, a community or a country, when faced with tragedy or fearful uncertainty, we either become bigger and enter life more fully, or else we accept a diminished life and resign ourselves to a smaller way of being.

Our scientific advances will be merely obscene unless they help the large part of our world's population emerge from miserable uncertainty and debilitating terror.

They had spoken to him of this fear in a thousand conversations over the years, the dread that infected their lives so that every setback, every difficulty— the lost job, the drug-addicted child, the failed marriage— was the result, not of life's uncertainty or human frailty, but of a dark power being wielded against them.

Her hand touched me at the wrist. "If I gave you my life, you would drop it. Wouldn't you?" I didn't say anything.

As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just about to close on the knotty question of whether or not I believe in God. In fact I am about to type, 'I do not believe in God', when the sky goes black as ink, there is a thunderclap and a huge crash of thunder and a downpour of epic proportions. I never do complete the sentence.

Te îndr?goste?ti de ea? - E prea devreme s? îmi dau seama.

Când nu e?ti sigur, ocole?te.

But then where is she? It's a simple question but once it's been asked, a floodgate of questions follow: What if something's happened?

Sometimes even the believers forget what they believe.

I feel something I can't quite put my finger on, something euphoric but deeply unsayable. Is it love or just not hate? Is it joy or just not sadness?

he seemed as right as rain when I saw him yesterday!" And that's what Pete and Joe said, too. Right as rain! And then I got to thinking. "That's how he was then," I said. "What's in your mind, Terry?" said Pete. "If he was fit as a fiddle one day, how come he was dead as a doornail the next?