Quotes About Uncertainty

You follow your faith, as weak as it is, rather than your doubts, as strong as they seem to you right now. You do that and leave the rest up to God. He'll make sure everything goes according to plan.

Me dijeron que era usted médico, pero con tal de que sea un gato me da igual

Life is a mess of accident, I find.

In my own country I am in a far off land. I am strong but have no power. I win all yet remain a loser. At break of day I say goodnight. When I lie down I have great fear of falling.

It's all in your head, Genevieve said. I know, said Alyss, and despite the traumas of the past , the uncertainty of the future, she wouldn't have given up this moment for anything. Isn't it wonderful?

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error," Leto explained. "To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.

Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. That's what life's all about. We're a probe into the unknown, into the uncertain. Why can't you hear Muad'Dib? If certainty is knowing absolutely an absolute future, then that's only death disguised! Such a future becomes now!

The universe does not work by our rules

The more I find out, the more I realize that I don't know what's going on. How fortunate that you have discovered the way of wisdom, Leto said.

To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

There's no reassuring ceiling over you, Moneo. Only an open sky full of changes. Welcome it. Every sense you possess is an instrument for reacting to change. Does that tell you nothing?

I stand in the sacred human presence. As I do now, so should you stand some day. I pray to your presence that this be so. Let the future remain uncertain for that is the canvas to receive our desires. Thus the human condition faces its perpetual tabula rasa. We possess no more than this moment where we dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence we share and create.

Do not count a human dead until you've seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake.

Are you a believer or just playing safe?

Failure to make a decision was in itself a decision—he

You never talk of likelihoods on Arrakis. You speak only of possibilities.

the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error. Even

I think you are a little afraid because you suspect what I suspect - that there was no natural disaster. They did it themselves, to themselves. If this is their own sad handiwork, ... what are our chances of finding friends among people so much to be feared?

Oholi podižu bedeme oko sebe iza kojih pokušavaju sakriti svoje sumnje i strahove.

to know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future. I require more freedom than that." Jessica

Paul felt that he had been infected with terrible purpose. He did not know yet what the terrible purpose was.

The more I find out, the more I realize that I don't know what's going on." "How fortunate that you have discovered the way of wisdom

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error.