Quotes About Uncertainty

All this information," I say. "Yet the world is more mysterious than ever.

The wound of not knowing," Ga said to her. "That's the one that never heals".

If I'd thought she was uninterested, I never would have worried so much - the prospect of screwing something up is much more daunting than that of screwing nothing up. I definitely thought there was something there, and so there was something to lose, you see.

Since bad timing could mean almost anything, it was a certain kind of truth. A low kind.

The worst thing about Communism is what comes after.

as though frustration were an unbearable form of self-doubt, a state in which we can so little tolerate not knowing what we want, not knowing whether it is available, and not having it that we fabricate certainties to fill the void (we fill in the gaps with states of conviction). The frustration is itself a temptation scene, one in which we must invent something to be tempted by.

The sign that something does matter to us is that we lose our steadiness.

I'm reaching toward something in a dark room. But I'm excited.

Let us say that science fiction is a kind of conceptual disorientation of the familiar.

This is an absence of evidence, which we scientists like to remind people is not the same as evidence of absence.

how much of what seemed known and well established is, in fact, unknown and steeped in ambiguity.

We are all Rumsfeldian, if we are doing science right.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. (Powers of Mind, 1975)

In the unfixables of our lives we are invited to keep company with Jesus and take a risk that God's intentions toward us are good.

You just can't know the feeling of being mother to a girl who you thought might die every single day - right up until the day she did.

I'm at the stage of the job when you just wish you hadn't started.

I think that's the hardest lesson I have had to learn as a parent; no matter how much I try, I am not able to guarantee my sons' happiness and success.

keep in mind that whenever you are in a crisis, you are in the midst of danger as well as oportunity.

Keep in mind that whenever you are in a crisis, you are in the midst of danger as well as opportunity.

Uncertainty cripples any serious and firm resolve and results in opinions swaying from one side to the other, leaving any decision that is made weak and half done, even when it comes to the most essential measures of self-preservation.

Their continued presence here, trapped in Chambers, with gunmen firing around them, demonstrated to him that there was no ultimate being. It was all in the roll of the dice.

Life is complicated. It wtarts before we're ready, it continues while we're still trying to figure out the point of it. And it ends long before we've worked out just what to do.