Quotes About Uncertainty

There is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time.

. . . the state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.

Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.

And I don't blame him. I don't even trust me.

Trust is a choice. Actually, trust is more of a desperate, hopeful guess based on limited information.

I ask myself, who do i trust? Then i answered, No-one

Trust no one, I scold myself. Even if they smell good.

To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.

We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one by one into the grave of nothingness.

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.

The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

The truth is, I pretend to be a cynic, but I am really a dreamer who is terrified of wanting something she may never get.

I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.

During a race where everyone holds their own truth, the finish line is a surprise.

It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.

So time, you see, is not so precise as many believe," Brynna was saying, lighting a candle. "It is not a solid thing, to be carved into days and hours at our bidding. It is fluid, liquid. It can change as easily as the sea changes, on one day calm and smooth, on another stormy and dangerous.

I felt the way I feel sometimes right before you go to sleep, when all you want to do is sleep, and then suddenly, when you're almost there, when your mind goes dizzy and it's almost like you don't have a body at all, your remember how long the night is, how you might not wake back up. And like a shock, you're sitting straight up, scared to do the thing you've done every day of your life.

Pese a todo, la vida y la muerte son estados misteriosos, y sabemos poco de los resortes de uno y otro.

The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.

We will never accomplish anything worthwhile in life if we require the guarantee of success at the onset.

I will keep you safe," he murmured. He meant it. As long as he was safe, she was safe. But how long would he remain safe?