Quotes About Uncertainty

Certainty ends inquiry.

The study of acting consists in the main of getting out of one's own way, and in learning to deal with uncertainty and being comfortable being uncomfortable.

The potential for engaged learning is inversely proportionate to the knowability of the outcome.

Having to know the answers puts in terrible positions from which to learn.

There are possibilities that exist beyond our present "knowing, " and to see those possibilities, we must abandon that which makes us feel safe.

The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

The secret of life is... everything is out of control.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

Youll never know where life is gonna take you. Youll never know where your life is gonna go. But youll never be able to find out if you end it.

When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

Life comes at us in waves. We can't predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf

Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.

Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.