Quotes About Uncertainty

truly my opinion is, that all our opinions are alike vain and uncertain. what we approve today, we condemn tomorrow. we keep a stir about knowledge, and spend our lives in the pursuit of it, when, alas! we know nothing all the while: nor do i think it possible for us to ever know anything in this life. our faculties are too narrow and too few. nature certainly never intended us for speculation.

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

O matrimónio não é a loteria. Na loteria algumas vezes ganha-se.

Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?

Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did.

I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered at about the same fifty percent rate. Half the time I get what I want, half the time I don't...Same as the four-leaf clover and the horseshoe...same as the voodoo lady who tells you your fortune by squeezing the goat's testicles. It's all the same...so just pick your superstition, sit back, make a wish, and enjoy yourself...

If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?

I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.

TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY. Not true. Today is another day. We have no idea what tomorrow is going to be. It might turn out to be another day, but we can't be sure. If it happens, I'll be the first to say so. But, you know what? By that time, it'll be today again

Weather forcast for tonight: dark.

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

eh, there's trouble i' this world, and there's things as we can niver make out the rights on. And all we've got to do is to trusten - Master Marner, to do the right thing as fur as we know, and to trusten. For if us as knows so little can see a bit o' good and rights, we may be sure as there's a good and a rights bigger nor what we can know.

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

scepticism, as we know, can never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill

It's ill guessing what the bats are flying after.

There's no work so tirin' as danglin' about an' starin' an' not rightly knowin' what you're goin' to do next; and keepin' your face i' smilin' order like a grocer o' market-day for fear people shouldna think you civil enough.

There are episodes in most men's lives in which their highest qualities can only cast a deterring shadow over the objects that fill their inward version.

Yes, that's the worst of it. It's a desperately vexatious thing, that after all one's reflections and quiet determinations, we should be ruled by moods that one can't calculate on beforehand.

Fred fancied that he saw to the bottom of his uncle Featherstone's soul, though in reality half what he saw there was no more than the reflex of his own inclinations. The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

But we are frightened at much that is not strictly conceivable.

On the verge of a decision we all tremble: hope pauses with fluttering wings.