Quotes About Uncertainty

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

I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.

Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray. You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You're ignorant, but at least you act on it.

Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.

I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.

I'm resolving to just wing it and see what happens.

They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that's why it's hard to tell if we're living in a tragedy or a farce. We need more special effects and dance numbers.

Just as I do not know where I came from, so I do not know where I am going. All I know is that when I leave this world I shall fall forever into oblivion, or into the hands of an angry God, without knowing which of the two will be my lot for eternity. Such is my state of mind, full of weakness and uncertainty. The only conclusion I can draw from all this is that I must pass my days without a thought of trying to find out what is going to happen to me.

At the far end of this infinite distance a coin is being spun which will come down heads or tails. How will you wager? Reason cannot make you choose either, reason cannot prove either wrong.

We desire truth and find within ourselves only uncertainty.

What must I do? I see nothing but obscurities on every side.' 'Shall I believe I am nothing? Shall I believe I am God?

We know that we are not dreaming, but, however unable we may be to prove it rationally, our inability proves nothing but the weakness of our reason, and not the uncertainty of all our knowledge as they maintain.

What reason for vanity in being plunged into impenetrable darkness?

We desire truth and find in ourselves nothing but uncertainty. We seek happiness and find only wretchedness and death. We are incapable of not desiring truth and happiness and incapable of either certainty or happiness. We have been left with this desire as much as a punishment as to make us feel how far we have fallen.

Denying, believing and doubting are to men what running is to horses.

To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.

It may be that there are such things as true proofs, but it is not certain.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

Instability.—It is a horrible thing to feel all that we possess slipping away.

And thus, by combining the uncertainty of chance with the force of mathematical proof and by the reconciliation of two apparent opposites, she derives her name from both of them and rightfully assumes the wonderful name of Mathematics of Chance!

He shook his head. "Not yet. But I sense it on the horizon and it saddens me, which is why I felt the need to speak with you." He paused and seemed to weigh his words. "When the time comes for you to leave—and it will come, of this I am certain—you must know that your leaving will bring our city great sadness, and that it is not our wish.

People are crazy and times are strange ... I used to care but things have changed

look, you know i don't wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn't make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious/...

People are crazy and times are strange, I'm locked in tight I'm out of range, I use to care but things have changed.