Quotes About Uncertainty

The nearest we ever come to knowing truth is when we are witness to a paradox.

The cave stretches back a long way. All we can do is press on until we find its far wall," Elric said. "Let's hope that its far wall lies not downwards," Moonglum said ironically as he motioned Elric to lead on.

Even then, as I stood there, that first morning, filled with apprehension at the terrifying implications of my dreadful situation

I should start at the beginning, I know that. But the trouble is that I don't know the beginning. I wish I did.

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.

Half the life of cities occurs at night,' Olive Lawrence warned us. 'There's a more uncertain morality then

I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover? I said nothing. -Deny it,damn you!

For when people leave our company in our time we are never certain of seeing them again, or seeing them unaltered.

Reason was the only thing that might save them, and there was no reason.

The right ending is an open door you can't see too far out of. It can mean exactly the opposite of what you are thinking.

If you grow up with uncertainty, you deal with people only on a daily basis, to be even safer on an hourly basis. You do not concern yourself with what you must or should remember about them. You are on your own.

They broke the way a man dismantling a mine broke the second his geography exploded.

In 1945 our parents went away and left us in the care of two men who may have been criminals.

If you grow up with uncertainty you deal with people only on a daily basis, to be even safer on an hourly basis. You do not concern yourself with what you must or should remember about them.

Daca ti-as incredinta viata mea, ai scapa-o pe jos. Nu-i asa?

It is a strange time, the end of a war." "Yes. A period of adjustment.

But what did we really know, even of one another? We never thought of a future. Our small solar system - what was it heading towards? And how long would each of us mean something to the others?

writer, I cannot remember who, spoke of a person having "a confusing grace." With an uncertainty alongside her warmth, that is how Emily has always been for me. You trusted her but she didn't trust herself. She was "good," but she was not that way in her own eyes. Those qualities still had not balanced out somehow, or agreed with each other. She

But his own mind was helpless against every moment's headline. He did nothing but leap into the mass of changes and explore them and all the tiny facets so eventually he was completely governed by fears of certainty. He distrusted it in anyone but Nora for there it went to the spine, and yet he attacked it again and again in her, cruelly, hating it, the sure lanes of the probable. Breaking chairs and window glass doors in fury at her certain answers. [15-16]

In fact I am about to type 'I do not believe in God', when the sky goes black as ink, there is a thunderclap and a huge crash of thunder and a downpour of epic proportions. I never do complete the sentence.

The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or once-and-for-all solutions. To garden well is to be happy amid the babble of the objective world, untroubled by its refusal to be reduced by our ideas of it, its indomitable rankness.

The garden is an unhappy place for the perfectionist. Too much stands beyond our control here, and the only thing we can absolutely count on is eventual catastrophe.

The entropy paper asks us to conceive of the mind as an uncertainty-reducing machine with a few serious bugs in it.

My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition.