Quotes About Uncertainty

It's my experience that people want to do something, but become confused by an overwhelming sense of hopelessness, not knowing what to do, and in the end do the only thing they believe they possibly can: nothing.

In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck — and, of course, courage.

Future shackled is when tomorrow is anchored, boxed and managed to maximize the minimizing of uncertainty.

Far too much horrific wast of human capacity is disguised as order, predictability, and minimizing uncertainty.

If you want a strong future: Becoming secure with insecurity is the best security you can have.

Future shackled is when uncertainty is the enemy that must be beaten into submission.

The walk of faith is to live according to the revelation we have received, in the midst of the mysteries we can't explain.

One of the toughest lessons a Christian can learn is how to trust and praise God in the uncertain time between a promise and its fulfillment.

One of the ultimate expressions of arrogance is to think that we know ahead of time what is about to happen, and to let that cause us to become ineffective in our assigned purpose and call.

Well, limbo is not a good place to be.

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.

Put simply, between ecological destruction and technological hubris, the human experiment is now in question.

Having your fate rest in the hands of a jury is the same as entrusting yourself to surgery with a mentally retarded doctor.

Fear especially marked him—fear of what he was doing and at the same time fear that nobody would believe him.

It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back.

I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details.

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

Hope without direction can all too easily turn into despair.

There are some risks we choose to take because the benefits from taking them exceed the possible costs. Optimal behavior takes risks that are worthwhile. This is the central paradigm of finance: we must take risks to achieve rewards, but not all risks are equally rewarded.

So, I don't know what is going to happen when the CD comes out, how well it will sell, etc. But, from a personal point of view, it was a very worthwhile endeavor.

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

What if every relationship you've ever been in, is someone slowly figuring out they didn't like you as much as they hoped they would?

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen.