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Quotes About Uncertainty

Stay and get married, or travel the Ways. Loial grimaced ruefully. Life is very unsettling with ta'veren for friends.
~ Robert Jordan
The Wheel of Time weaves the Pattern of the Ages, and lives are the threads it weaves. No one can tell how the thread of his own life will be woven into the Pattern, or how the thread of a people will be woven.
~ Robert Jordan
Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change.
~ Robert Jordan
Death came for every man eventually, and seldom where or when he expected.
~ Robert Jordan
Oh, kiss a flaming goat if I know what I mean.
~ Robert Jordan
Tuon looked at him, squatting there by the map, moving his fingers over its surface, and suddenly she saw him in a new light. A buffoon? No. A lion stuffed into a horse-stall might look like a peculiar joke, but a lion on the high plains was something very different. Toy was loose on the high plains, now. She felt a chill. What sort of man had she entangled herself with? After all this time, she realized, she had hardly a clue.
~ Robert Jordan
Battles can alter history. He did not sound pleased with it. The trouble is, sometimes you cannot say how history will be changed until it is too late.
~ Robert Jordan
As many roads down as up, and the roads down as slippery as the others.
~ Robert Jordan
If someone offers him enough gold, it becomes a toss of the dice, and not even Mat Cauthon could say how they'll land.
~ Robert Jordan
But I thought you said we didn't have to worry, Perrin said, and Tam shook his head. I said should not, boy, not did not. I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen, would not.
~ Robert Jordan
The topics of our ignorance may change, but the nature of the world is that no man may know everything.
~ Robert Jordan
Its time to role the dice.
~ Robert Jordan
people often did not like hearing about their futures, even when they said they wanted to.
~ Robert Jordan
No one can tell how the thread of his own life will be woven into the Pattern, or how the thread of a people will be woven. It
~ Robert Jordan
Life is uncertainty and struggle, choice and change; one who knew how her life was woven into the Pattern as well as she knew how a thread was laid into a carpet would have the life of an animal. If she did not go mad. Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change.
~ Robert Jordan
If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know
~ Robert Jordan
You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyways.
~ Robert Jordan
Believing because you think you know is dangerous.
~ Robert Jordan
As sure as peaches are poison.
~ Robert Jordan
Non puoi sapere sempre tutto- disse Lan con calma- e parte di ciò che sai è sempre sbagliato. Forse perfino la parte più importante. Una porzione di saggezza sta nel rendersi conto di questo. Una porzione di coraggio sta nell'andare comunque avanti.
~ Robert Jordan
Thom smiled back almost as unsteadily; he looked as if he was contemplating a leap from the window.
~ Robert Jordan
popped into his head then, one he did not want to ask, one
~ Robert Jordan
He could not decide whether she was an utter feather head, or very clever.
~ Robert Jordan
Why did you come up here, Sheriam Sedai?" For
~ Robert Jordan