Quotes About Uncertainty

It's true that you can't take an individual rain droplet and say where it's come from or where it's going to end up. But you can say with pretty good certainty whether it will be cloudy tomorrow.

It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.

All space exploration is risky. As an astronaut, I had to decide each and every time I went to space whether or not to risk my life for the mission.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.

You don't know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They're very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way.

I never step upon a stage without asking myself whether I will succeed in finishing the opera. The fact is that a conscientious singer is never sure of himself or of anything. He is ever in the hands of Destiny.

Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And when I'm swimming, sometimes I'm not sure which one it is.

Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.

Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.

There isn't anything that pays you as much money as acting while you are deciding what the hell you're going to do with yourself.

Criticism does demand a certain kind of authority, but what about the authority of not really being sure what you think? What about the authority, the authenticity that comes from bringing all your intellectual, emotional and spiritual equipment to a piece of art or entertainment whilst still being uncertain and confused?

On 'Far North,' we were always aware of being at the whim of mother nature. She's the biggest star in the film.

As an actor, you do feel very powerless... you are at the whim of the agent who submits you for a project, and then at the audition, you are at the whim of the casting director who will cast you or not.

I've never guided my life. I've just been whipped along by the waves I'm sitting in. I don't make plans at all. Plans are what make God laugh. You can make plans, you can make so many plans, but they never go right, do they?

'Civil War' was such a whirlwind, and I didn't really know what was going on. I was thrown into the deep end.

To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.

Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it.

Life isn't always black and white. You're not always sure you're right. At least I'm not.

In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray.

Law in Ukraine is not black and white; it is shades of gray.

A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings.

Life is a dangerous thing. Insecurity is the price of living.