Quotes About Uncertainty

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thicksighted: thence proceeds mawkishness, and the thousand bitters which those men I speak of must necessarily taste in going over the following pages.

I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of—I am however young writing at random—straining at particles of light in the midst of a great darkness—without knowing the bearing of any one assertion of any one opinion. Yet may I not in this be free from sin?

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.

We all agree your theory is crazy. What divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being right."* { Niels Bohr }

The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.

Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.

There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don't know, and those who don't know they don't know.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

It's not because my mind is made up that I don't want you to confuse me with any more facts. It's because my mind isn't made up. I already have more facts than I can cope with.

I did not know everything there was to know about myself, and knew that I did not know it.

We take it for granted that life moves forward. But you move as a rower moves, facing backwards—you can see where you've been, but not where you're going. And your boat is steered by a younger version of you. It's hard not to wonder what life would be like facing the other way…

anoscetia the anxiety of not knowing "the real you.

There is always a certain risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there's more risk." —Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

The only thing worse than when nothing happens is when something does.

How best to state his case. In a game of stakes and odds, Onions held a full corpse to his one arm – he didn't even have a pair.

driven crazy by not knowing which'll destroy us first, the H-bomb or the wrong fork at the dinner table,

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

You ever think that life is something that happens and that you're not ever completely prepared for?

A]lthough the past is never completely knowable, it is more knowable than the future.

When in the world will this lunacy end?

Certainty creates strength. Certainty gives one something upon which to lean. Uncertainty creates weakness. Uncertainty makes one tentative if not fearful, and tentative steps, even when in the right direction, may not overcome significant obstacles.

There are some days I practice positive thinking, and other days I'm not positive I am thinking.

The biggest risk, is to take no risks