Quotes About Uncertainty

It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me

We will never know if an advertisement or opinion poll has had a real influence on individual or collective wills, but we will never know either what would have happened if there had been no opinion poll or advertisement.

I might not know every step of my journey, but standing still wouldn't accomplish a thing. Sometimes you just had to take a step, whatever the direction, and see what happened.

They've been fairly positive, as firm as they could be in regards to the derivatives operations in Montreal. We didn't sense that there was a hesitation about it. But things change.

Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.

Mi s-a p?rut c? am în?eles, înc? din acea perioad?, c? oamenii, evenimentele, istoria sunt întotdeauna ambigui ?i c? acordul spiritelor este arareori altceva decât o neîn?elegere binecuvântat? de zei.

fiecare ?tie în prezent c? nu suntem aproape nimic altceva decât rodul circumstan?elor în care ne zbatem ?i care ne alc?tuiesc între hazard ?i necesitate.

In the next few minutes, both of them sensed the false cheerfulness that came from trying to reassure the other in the face of real doubts. But they each were still glad they ahd someone to be falsely cheerful for.

All i know is that the world exists. But only god himself knows whether He exists.

Tu veux savoir ce qu'il faut faire, et tu ne connais pas seulement le monde où tu vis. Tu comprends que quelque chose est contre toi, et tu ne sais pas quoi.

That road, as it turned out, would be even lonelier than she had reason to fear.

When the world is tipping beneath you and you are tumbling even when you are sitting, even when you are sleeping (especially when you are sleeping), any place is the same as any other place.

Deep inside him, so deep even he would not have known how to excavate it, was the rank, gangrenous fear that he was not entirely the intellectual being he had long ventriloquized.

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

Whither goest all of us, huh...for cryin' out loud?

To be an ignorant man, to posses nothing but a fragile word, to find oneself as if relying upon darkness and nothingness: that is the position from which one must be constantly setting out.

Nobody knows what to do when there's a tragedy. Nobody practices for it.

He was trying to decide if she was pretty. If you had to think about it, he guessed the answer was no.

When we think about an economic problem, the first answer that occurs to us is not always the correct one.

One had to be prepared for the thought that the world might actually be approaching Armageddon.

You could never be sure, at any given moment, whether she was inhabiting her own private fantasy land—which she seemed to do most of the time—or whether she was on one of her flying visits to what passed for reality.