Quotes About Uncertainty

All creativity is based on quantum leaps and uncertainty.

This means that the search for security and certainty is actually an attachment to the known. And what's the known? The known is our past. The known is nothing other than the prison of past conditioning. There's no evolution in that — absolutely none at all. And when there is no evolution, there is stagnation, entropy, disorder, and decay. Uncertainty, on the other hand, is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom

We can never fully understand the how, where, and when of anything, even something as simple as boiling water. We have to surrender to uncertainty, while appreciating its intricate beauty. All

enjoying every moment in the journey of your life, even if you don't know the outcome.

What this says on a spiritual level is that we can never really know what direction life will take, what changes those small butterfly-flutters of intention and action might cause in our destiny. And at the same time, it also tells us that we can never truly know the mind of God. We can never fully understand the how, where, and when of anything, even something as simple as boiling water. We have to surrender to uncertainty, while appreciating its intricate beauty.

Cuando pones tu atención en lo incierto y eres testigo de ello, mientras esperas la solución con expectativas de que ésta salga del caos y la confusión, entonces el resultado es algo fabuloso y emocionante.

Sir Arthur Eddington as he contemplated the peculiarities of the quantum domain: "Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

Make uncertainty your ally, not your enemy. All leaps forward depend on reaching into the unknown. Once you see the unknown as the source of creativity, you no longer fear it. Instead, you welcome the fact that life renews itself in unexpected ways.

Uncertainty, on the other hand, is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom.

the possibility, so brilliantly intuited by Heisenberg, that nature gives every observer what he's looking for.

Uncertainty, on the other hand, is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom. Uncertainty means stepping into the unknown in every moment of our existence. The unknown is the field of all possibilities, ever fresh, ever new, always open to the creation of new manifestations. Without uncertainty and the unknown, life is just the stale repetition of outworn memories. You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is your self left over from yesterday.

does a world without spiritual power force us to seek distraction because underneath, we do not know the answers at all?

Relinquish your attachment to the outcome. This means giving up your rigid attachment to a specific result and living in the wisdom of uncertainty. It means enjoying every moment in the journey of your life, even if you don't know the outcome.

Jamás comprenderemos cabalmente el cómo, el dónde ni el cuándo de nada, ni siquiera de algo tan simple como el agua hirviendo. Debemos rendirnos a la incertidumbre y apreciar su belleza.

No external experience will support us, because the flux of events is inescapable. Note: from the introduction written by Chopra in The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts.

The economy, like science or art, is more like an organism growing uncertainly toward the light than a steel machine repeating exactly today and tomorrow what it did yesterday.

A recognition of the impossibility of exact perfection lay behind the work of a few economists, such as Herbert Simon's satisficing, Ronald Coase's transaction costs, George Shackle's and Israel Kirzner's reaffirmation of the old Yogi Berra jest: it's hard to predict, especially about the future.

Although personal calling I sense—who am I? even if I am, I don't know.

You don't know anything, but I know even less.

Follow the fear.

Sometimes you don't know who you can and cannot trust. I still learn that over and over again.

The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.

Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.