Quotes About Uncertainty

Our knowledge can only be finite while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Perhaps they didn't know they were at sea. Was there a certain percentage of people at sea who lacked the knowledge that they were at sea?

Fog is more dangerous than dark, as it gives the illusion of seeing.

The only satisfactory thing about death is that our knowledge about it is unsatisfactory.

In a climate of uncertainty and fear, without strong and visionary leadership, people panic.

Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.

If we are to remain mission focused, as we must be if we are to be relevant in an uncertain age, the abandoning those things that do not further the mission is a leadership imperative.

The dark comes before dawn. The financial markets are under great pressure because of the lack of leadership during the transition period.

The task of the strategist and leadership team is to reduce uncertainty in the areas that they can directly influence in order to pursue attractively difficult objectives.

Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline of clearly defined political leadership.

Leadership is about uncertainty. Deal with it

In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.

Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.

Some questions cannot be answered, but they can be decided.

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all answers.It comes from being open to all questions.

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.

We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, "I don't know."

We have to learn to make our own way through a complex world without the benefit of an accepted trustworthy route map.

Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.

I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.

You are always learning; there is a lot of grey; don't take things for granted.