Quotes About Uncertainty

It is often necessary to make a decision on the basis of knowledge sufficient for action but insufficient to satisfy the intellect.

I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be.

Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.

The more certain our knowledge the less we know.

In an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty, the one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the more you know, the more you know you don't know.

Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

Knowing you might not make it... in that knowledge courage is born.

Half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

You can't know, you can only believe - or not.

... I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretense of exact knowledge that is likely to be false.

There is no knowledge without risk taking.

Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.

President Reagan didn't always know what he knew.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

Sundays are terrible because it is clear that there is no one in charge of the world. And this knowledge leave you drifting around, grappling with unfulfilled expectations and vague yearnings.