Quotes About Uncertainty

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

The curiosity to know things which are too high for us, which are beyond our horizon, which are unfathomable precisely because of the weakness which makes the future so obscure to us, has led men into many such ludicrous methods and errors.

The Italian philosopher Paolo Virno says we have moved from having a "proletariat"—a solid block of manual workers with jobs—to a "precariat," a shifting mass of chronically insecure people who don't know whether they will have any work next week and may never have a stable job.

They wanted easy answers to complex fears.

Niemand weiß eine Medaille am Rand anzufassen

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.

No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.

We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.

One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.

How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success

En esta vida son pocos los momentos que se resuelven con un sí o con un no.

O glücklich, wer noch hoffen kann, aus diesem Meer des Irrtums aufzutauchen! Was man nicht weiß, das eben brauchte man, und was man weiß, kann man nicht brauchen.

Y así continúo corriendo tras esta vaga sombra, hasta que me conduce al borde del abismo, donde me detengo con espanto.

Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

Danger is the spice of life and you've got to take a risk now and then…that's what makes life worthwhile.

Real life ... it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, only their small portion of it.

How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random".

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

It may be that we cease; we cannot tell. Even if we cease, life is a miracle.