Quotes About Uncertainty

So it wasn't me that made him do this, if he did this while married to Joanne and also to Estelle? Then it wasn't because of me? I could not believe this. And I thought about what he had said the night before about choice. He may not have had any choice about this part of him. How do I know?

I have mentioned earlier how easy it is for me to become frightened, and as we drove up this turnpike with barely another car in sight I thought: Oh I wish I had not come! I am afraid of things that are not familiar.

But when I think Oh William!, don't I mean Oh Lucy! too? Don't I mean Oh Everyone, Oh dear Everybody in this whole wide world, we do not know anybody, not even ourselves!

One more: This had to do with death. It had to do with a sense of leaving, he could feel himself almost leaving the world and he did not believe in any afterlife and so this filled him on certain nights with a kind of terror.

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

So I have seen a man killed! An experience that, among others! Yes, I suppose I hav; although I can hardly be certain, And in a court of justice could never declare I had seen it. But a man was killed, I am told, in a place where I saw Something: a man was killed, I am told, and I saw something.

Je moet er toch niet bij nadenken hoeveel afslagen een mens op zijn pad misloopt omdat hij eerder naar zijn twijfels luistert dan naar zijn impuls.

Ik vraag me af waar meer durf voor nodig is, doorleven met een lot dat je kent of aanmodderen zonder enig idee van wat je staat te gebeuren

Hij is er huiverig voor iets gewoon te vinden alleen omdat het door iedereen zo gezien wordt. Wie verzekert hem dat het perspectief zo meteen niet weer wisselt en hij al zijn verwachtingen opnieuw zal moeten bijstellen?

The fact is: I no longer believe in my own infallibility. That is why I am lost.

Evet," dedi profesör, "san?r?m öyle. Ya da sadece bir tesadüf. Böyle konularda hiçbir zaman tamamen emin olunamaz, biliyorsunuz. Tesadüf profesörü öldürdü.

Perhaps men could accustom themselves to living with a small amount of doubt. I think doubt a necessary ingredient to live.

Nous ne pouvons savoir ! - Nous sommes accablés D'un manteau d'ignorance et d'étroites chimères ! Singes d'hommes tombés de la vulve des mères, Notre pâle raison nous cache l'infini ! Nous voulons regarder : - le Doute nous punit ! Le doute, morne oiseau, nous frappe de son aile... - Et l'horizon s'enfuit d'une fuite éternelle !...

On the roads, through winter nights, without a home, without habits, without bread, a voice strangled my frozen heart: "Weakness or strength: Those are your options, so strength it is. You know neither where you're going, nor why you're going, entering anywhere, answering anyone. You're no more likely to be killed than a corpse." By morning, I had developed such a lost, dead expression that those I met may not have even seen me.

On highroads on winter nights, without roof, without clothes, without bread, a voice gripped my frozen heart: "Weakness or strength: there you are, it's strength. You do not know where you are going, nor why you are going; enter anywhere, reply to anything. They will no more kill you than if you were a corpse." In the morning I had a look so lost, a face so dead, that perhaps those whom I met did not see me.

The typical gambler might not really understand the probabilistic nuances of the wheel or the dice, but such things seem a bit more tractable than, say, trying to raise a child in this lunatic society of ours.

Am I sure? Only as sure as I am that the reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can ever be the whole truth.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.

Es la duda la que mantiene joven a la gente. La certeza es como un virus maligno. Te contagia de vejez.

But one never knows how the dice will fall, and they are always cast before anyone even notices.

Lo malo de estas cosas es que, hasta que el rabo no pasa, todo es toro.