Quotes About Uncertainty

People in their 30s know where the world is going because they're going to do it. I'm in my 80s so I have no idea.

Whenever things were frightening, it was a good idea to measure them.

Insa, cand au trecut de primele suburbii ale Berlinului si Humboldt si-a inchipuit cum Gauss a cercetat corpurile ceresti prin telescopul sau in tot acest timp - corpuri ceresti ale caror orbite pot fi descrise in formule simple -, n-a mai fost in stare sa spuna care dintre ei doi a ramas acasa si care a colindat lumea.

Una collina di cui non si conosce l'altitudine è un'offesa per la ragione e mi inquieta. Senza esaminare costantemente la propria posizione, nessun uomo può progredire. Non si lascia ai margini del proprio cammino un mistero, per quanto insignificante.

That's the thing about human life--there is no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

I live with the fact that I don't know if there really is any meaningful cosmic order and, God knows, that is a continual frustration. But I don't understand why it should be any more frustrating to know that there is a grand design but I am unable to understand it. In both cases, I am in the cosmic dark.

Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it.

Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.

If the past is a wall with some holes, the future is a hole with no walls.

There are many good things about getting older, but no one knows what they are.

But just as we tend to treat the details of future events that we do imagine as though they were actually going to happen, we have an equally troubling tendency to treat the details of future events that we don't imagine as though they were not going to happen. In other words, we fail to consider how much imagination fills in, but we also fail to consider how much it leaves out.

We insist on steering our boats because we think we have a pretty good idea of where we should go, but the truth is that much of our steering is in vain—not because the boat won't respond, and not because we can't find our destination, but because the future is fundamentally different than it appears through the prospectiscope. Just

Eu teria voltado para casa, se soubesse onde ficava. Mas como eu não tinha mais certeza sobre coisa nenhuma, resolvi ficar parado no mesmo lugar para ver se minha casa acabava me encontrando.

En otras palabras, no pierda la cabeza, nada ocurre como está previsto, es lo único que nos enseña el futuro al convertirse en pasado.

Dica un po', Malaussène, non è che mi sta sfinendo solo perché sta per diventare papà?" "Sì." "Ecco. Cinquecento milioni di indù sono probabilmente nella sua stessa situazione.

C'est l'affreuse loterie de la vie

Trust me, there is no formula for most things that are not math.

It doesn't matter who you are, or what you've done, or think you can do. There's a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Somewhere, there is a chile you cannot eat.

The future had become a fierce, wild creature.

My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.

I have no idea how much money I've got.

When counterterrorism officers feel optimism, innocent people usually end up dead. - Gabriel Allon

life was a journey best taken without aid of a map.

I find it comforting to prepare myself for a calamity and to be pleasantly surprised if it turns out to be a garden-variety disaster instead.