Quotes About Uncertainty

With the individual wielding unprecedented power to decide her own path in life, we find it ever harder to make commitments.

is there anything more dangerous than a god who doesn't know what he wants?

don't rely on the adults too much. Most of them mean well, but they just don't understand the world. In the past, it was a relatively safe bet to follow the adults, because they knew the world quite well, and the world changed slowly. But the twenty-first century is going to be different. Because of the increasing pace of change, you can never be certain whether what the adults are telling you is timeless wisdom or outdated bias.

How can I find a firm ethical ground in a world that extends far beyond my horizons, that spins completely out of human control, and that holds all gods and ideologies suspect?

If modernity has a motto, it is 'shit happens'.

Finns det något farligare än missnöjda och oansvariga gudar som inte riktigt vet vad de vill?

History has still not decided where we will end up, and a string of coincidences might yet send us rolling in either direction.

What's the point of making predictions if they can not change anything?

Wishes are sometimes just stories that have nowhere to go.

Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.

It's so funny. I honestly thought every one of those people on the show could beat anyone at any time anywhere. You just have to have a slightly off day or moment or two or you missed a touch of acid. It has nothing to do with credentials. Anyone could've chopped anyone at any time. I had to look at myself as the one who could lose this the most.

All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.

And tomorrow--who knows what happens? Do you get it? I don't know and no one knows--it's all unknown! You understand, that this is the end to the Known? This is the new, the improbable, the unpredictable.

When you're hurt, you feel stupid because you think you should have seen it coming. But if we knew everything that was going to happen to us we wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

Ani mam wita? siÄ™ ani ?egna? ?yjemy na archipelagach a ta woda te sÅ'owa có? mogÄ… có? mogÄ… ksi???

Ani nam wita? siÄ™ ani ?egna? ?yjemy na archipelagach a ta woda te sÅ'owa có? mogÄ… có? mogÄ… ksi???

Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today.

Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant -- you just don't know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you'd mapped out for yourself. Or you can trust your personal demon who delivered that crazy idea in the first place. Trust your demon.

We couldn't go on indefinitely being swept off our feet.

No entiendo por qué tengo constantemente este presentimiento de un desastre inminente

Creativity is the joy of not knowing it all.

When a hideous man becomes a father And a son is born to him In the middle of the night He trembles and lights a lamp And runs to look in anguish On that child's face To see who he resembles.

Waiting for changing opinions is like waiting for nothing.

There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is no beginning of that no beginning of beginning. There is something. There is nothing. There is something before the beginning of something and nothing, and something before that. Suddenly there is something and nothing. But between something and nothing, I still don't really know which is something and which is nothing. Now, I've just said something, but I don't really know whether I've said anything or not.