Quotes About Uncertainty

With knowledge grows doubt.

One of my friends, reading the title of these lectures [The Whence and Whither of Man] said: "Of man's origin you know nothing, of his future you know less."

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.

I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on.

I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.

Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable.

Knowledge breeds doubt, not certainty, And the more we know the more uncertain we become.

No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.

Maybe you are already lost and just do not know it.

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

We oft know little of who we were, only something of who we are, and nothing of who we may be.

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.

Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?

To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know.

Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?" "I wouldn't know," I said. "Nor would we," said the scientists.

no knowledge obtained without risk

We won't know for a few years.

With knowledge comes more doubt.

I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.

I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

That's one of the things of being an actor. You have to push any knowledge of any future, at all, out of your mind. You never know what's going to happen where.

Uncertainty is inevitable at the frontiers of knowledge.

In all affairs love religion politics or business it's a healthy idea now and then to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted.