Quotes About Uncertainty

Newfoundlanders debated over when the cod was coming back. Few dared ask if. Or what happens to the ocean if they don't come back?

How much above zero still produces zero is not known.

Mi vida ha estado en peligro desde la orla de mi graduación

Supongo que en la vida hay algunas cosas que no podemos explicar y otras en las que es mejor no pensar.

Oh, fuck you and your certainties, Atticus. You're only sure because you're twenty-nine.

It may actually be more healthy to be disturbed, confused, or searching than confident, certain, and secure.

have no way of knowing how cold (or warm) the globe actually got", how did the IPCC know it's hotter than it's been for a thousand years?

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

I never knew. I never knew as I washed, and the blood streaked, faded, and finally disappeared, whether I'd purified myself or ruined the blood sign of the passover.

Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end.

As much as anyone, I imagine, he went on, I live in the shadows of faith - that is, in doubt. Doubt and dedication often go hand in hand. And faith, crucially, is not assenting intellectually to a series of doctrinal propositions; it is living in conscious and rededicated relationship to God. Nevertheless, the temptation to profess creeds with uncrossed fingers is strong.

Well, what was wrong with it? We don't know, says James. That's a stupid rotten answer. Life is sometimes rotten and stupid.

Good food and good eating are about risk.

Shortcut.' The word filled me with dread. When has a shortcut ever worked out as planned? The word – in a horror film at least – usually precedes disembowelment and death. A 'shortcut' almost never leads to good times.

Life was clearly a cruel joke. A place with no guarantees, built on a foundation of false assumptions if not outright untruths. You think everything's going okay… Then they shoot your fucking dog.

And I've long believed that good food, good eating is all about risk.

As we continue upriver, we move farther and farther away from the world I know, and toward someone else's. It's thrilling to not know where you're going.

if things look good today, they will most assuredly turn to shit tomorrow.

I went to Ithaca in 1903 when one person in ten was sick, and one person in a hundred was dying from the disease. You have no idea of the state of mind I found the people in. They didn't know what to do; didn't know where to go; didn't know whom to suspect and whom to trust  . .

Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.

There was no trust anywhere in the world, O my brothers, the way I could see it.