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Quotes About Uncertainty

I never know what I'm doing on these sites.
~ Saralee Perel
Supongo que uno no puede prever los inconvenientes de la soledad.
~ Sartre Jean Paul
En el fondo, ¿qué busco? No sé.
~ Sartre Jean Paul
Parece inevitable, tan fuerte es la necesidad de esta música; nada puede interrumpirla, nada que venga del tiempo donde está varado el mundo; cesará sola, por orden. Esta hermosa voz me gusta sobre todo, no por su amplitud ni su tristeza, sino porque es el acontecimiento que tantas notas han preparado desde lejos, muriendo para que ella nazca. Y sin embargo, estoy inquieto; bastaría tan poco para que el disco se detuviera.
~ Sartre Jean Paul
How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.
~ Saul Bellow
And the process started over again. Once more it was, Who are you? And I had to confess that I didn't know where to begin.
~ Saul Bellow
Everyone was like the faces on a playing card, upside down either way.
~ Saul Bellow
I may well be a flop at this line of endeavor. Columbus too thought he was a flop, probably, when they sent him back in chains. Which didn't prove there was no America.
~ Saul Bellow
To accept too many favors from Ramona was dangerous. He might have to pay with his freedom. Of course he didn't need that freedom now; he needed a rest. Still, after resting, he might want his freedom again. He wasn't sure of that, either. But it was a possibility.
~ Saul Bellow
My balance comes from instability.
~ Saul Bellow
Human consciousness at present is a sort of battlefield. And you know what Tolstoy tells us about battles in War and Peace. Nobody really knows what is going on during a battle...
~ Saul Bellow
Tko traži sre?u - morao bi biti spreman na loš ishod.
~ Saul Bellow
In every direction, the walls of life are tiled with such facts so that you can never account for them all, only note some of the more conspicuous ones.
~ Saul Bellow
A strange heart. I myself can't account for it.
~ Saul Bellow
That's so often what it is with machinery: be somewhat in doubt and it carries the decision.
~ Saul Bellow
I don't trust the man that i am becoming he seems too much and seldom is
~ Saul Williams
The kids' rooms are not decorated. There are no pictures or posters on the doors or the walls, and that is true of all the rooms of the house in which my wife and kids live and the dorm room in which I spend most of my time. We are careful not to leave any marks, because you never know when it'll be time to get up and go.
~ Sayed Kashua
In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.
~ Scarlett Thomas
Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free. . . . It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators. . . . What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.
~ Scarlett Thomas
Noi nu ÅŸtim, în zilele noastre bune ce nenorocire ne preg?teÅŸte destinul tocmai acum: boal?, prigoan?, s?r?cie, mutilare, orbire, nebunie, moarte ÅŸ.a.m.d.
~ Schopenhauer
Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice, tells us that people become unhappy if they have too many options in life. The problem with options is that choosing any path can leave you plagued with self-doubt.
~ Scott Adams
Being absolutely right and being spectacularly wrong feel exactly the same.
~ Scott Adams
We humans don't like uncertainty, so we are attracted to those who offer clarity and simple answers, even if the answers are wrong or incomplete. Master Persuaders can thrive in chaotic environments by offering the clarity people crave. And if an environment is not chaotic already, a skilled persuader who understands both social media and the news business can easily stir the pot to create an advantage through chaos. Candidate Trump was a champion of this method.
~ Scott Adams
Every other question has an answer to why. Only probability is inexplicable.
~ Scott Adams