Quotes About Uncertainty

Times change, faces change but the doubt remains, the fear remains-

I don't believe in God. But I do believe in doubt. I do believe in fear.

These should be the happiest days, weeks and months of your life, but behind the scenes, upstairs and down, there is always doubt, always fear and always trouble-

The fixation on the heap of information in the textbooks is itself part of the problem because the world we are educating learners for is something of a moving target, itself as much unknown as known.

Clouds, leaves, soil, and wind all offer themselves as signals of changes in the weather. However, not all the storms of life can be predicted.

And hopefully nothing will happen." But of course, as she well knew, something always does happen. It's just a question of what and when.

And here's the thing about outbreaks: They end. In some cases they end after many years, in other cases they end rather soon.

Drama Series's carcass was unceremoniously carted away, by the usual contract hauler, to the dump where dead Brisbane horses routinely go. Her cause of death remained uncertain. Had she been bitten by a snake? Had she eaten some poisonous weeds out in that scrubby, derelict meadow? Those hypotheses crumbled abruptly, thirteen days later, when her stable mates began falling ill. They went down like dominoes. This wasn't snakebite or toxic fodder. It was something contagious

in Moscow, being paranoid doesn't mean doom is not on the way.

When we look deeply into our fears, we see that, at base, every fear is a fear of not having control

Faith is real when it hails life's terms with no entitlement to an exemption and no guarantees they will be reversed beyond the grave.

All in all, it would be a perfect afternoon, if not for the fact that I have a meeting coming up at which I am concerned that I could be killed. There's always something...

I find myself thinking, "I'm not so sure this is a great idea." I find myself saying, "Great.

This is the world in which everyone is sensitised to risk but indifferent to fate.

The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.

His expressions of psychological depression in his notebooks (such as "Every thing I have done seems to me blank and suspicious") doubtless lay behind brooding lines like these: The doubts of the daytime and the doubts of the nighttime.… the curious whether and how, Whether that which appears so is so.… Or is it all flashes and specks?

Investing entails risk, and risk means that you could lose money occasionally for reasons that are beyond your control. However, you can make sure to reduce the possibility of errors by controlling your decision making process.

Be prepared for the possible outcomes and use only money you could afford to lose, even if your initial speculative trades seem to be successful. Almost

If you don't know what you are purchasing, you are just taking unnecessary risk. If you haven't done your homework to really understand the characteristics of an investment class, you are taking risk.

There was uncertainty in the air, a feeling that life was suddenly fragile.

I felt like I was only just beginning to make a useful contribution. In persuing my education and my career, I had made many sacrifices, invested a lot in the future. And suddenly I was facing the possibility that there would be no future at all.

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

No matter what we do, no matter how we agonize or obsess, we cannot choose for our children whether they live or die.

Since reason and love, the forces I had come to rely on in my life, have betrayed me, I am in unknown territory.