Quotes About Uncertainty

But a first choice is not always the right choice.

Always there was change, there was no preventing it and no undoing it, either—and all arrangements were temporary. Everything changed except one's courage. But as long as that remained, a person—or even a city—could look ahead.

Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.

Esto, después de todo, no ha hecho más que terminar. Dentro de poco, si hay suerte, estaremos todos perdidos.

Così dunque la vita é rimasta un mistero. E io stesso, per me, sono ancora il primo mistero.

Many people had a fatalistic outlook, a conviction that life's vicissitudes were predetermined by fate, which must have been useful in such a violent age, when the world was very uncertain.

You can work as hard as you like, and plan as carefully as you want, but there are moments when it's just about a hunch, about trusting your instincts, or about fate.

It was a reminder that you only get so long, that you never know what's around the corner. Maybe that gave me some real clarity about what was important to me about life. Why try and deny how you really feel, deep down, about something as fundamental as fatherhood?

I've come too far, and I don't know how to get back.

we can't build our dreams, on suspicious minds

The best quantitative finance brings real insight into the relation between value and uncertainty, and it approaches the quality of real science; the worst is a pseudoscientific hodgepodge of complex mathematics used with obscure justification.

You ought not to decline from any uncertainty/eventuality. Rather, you ought to square up to it i.e. face and tackle it resolutely.

Your stand/reaction before or in the face of challenges, eventualities and uncertainties is what truly determines, proves and portrays the real stuff that you are made of i.e. whether you are actually weak or strong, unyielding or yielding.

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.

For animals, life is all there is; for man, life is a question mark. An irreversible question mark, for man has never found, nor will ever find, any answers. Life not only has no meaning; it can never have one.

Having destroyed all my connections, burned my bridges, I should feel a certain freedom, and in fact I do. One so intense I am afraid to rejoice in it.

I am for the most part so convinced that everything is lacking in basis, consequence, justification, that if someone dared to contradict me, even the man I most admire, he would seem to me a charlatan or a fool.

Someday the old shack we call the world will fall apart. How, we don't know, and we don't really care either. Since nothing has real substance, and life is a twirl in the void, its beginning and its end are meaningless.

Our power resides in our incapacity to know how alone we are.

In all the edifices of thought, I have found no category on which to rest my head. Whereas Chaos—there's a pillow!

There are no solutions, only cowardice masquerading as such.

Cerul senin ne oblig? la mai multe întrist?ri decât cel cenuÈ™iu, c?ci ne pune în faÈ›a prea multor speranÈ›e la care n-avem curajul pe când ultimul ne îngroap? f?r? speranÈ›e.

What will be the physiognomy of painting, of poetry, of music, in a hundred years? No one can tell. As after the fall of Athens, of Rome, a long pause will intervene, caused by the exhaustion of consciousness itself. Humanity, to rejoin the past, must invent a second naiveté, without which the arts can never begin again.