Quotes About Uncertainty

I expect to spend the rest of my life in the future, so I want to be reasonably sure of what kind of future it's going to be. That is my reason for planning.

Ljubav se stalno menja zato što se mi stalno menjamo. Stoga romanti?na ljubav, sama po sebi, donosi nestabilnost. ?ini nas nezadovoljnim onim što imamo time što nas uvek usmerava ka ne?emu što ne posedujemo u potpunosti, ili posedujemo u nedovoljnoj meri, ili pak u ?ije smo posedovanje suviše sigurni.

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

Comfort may lure a man away from faith as easily as danger.

Orthodox theologian Michael Oleksa makes the point that the Christian, while knowing where Christ is, can never be certain where he is not.61

The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks. (65)

What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176)

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Agnostics are just atheists without balls.

ambivalence, it turns out, is an unavoidable companion in the search for a new dharma):

But at the outset of the tale, Arjuna's central torment is not grasping. Or even its flip side—fear and aversion. No, it's clear to us that Arjuna is not really so much afraid as he is immobilized in a web of doubt. Stuck on the floor of the chariot. In

When doubts haunt me" Sabapathy Kulandran. Grace in Christianity and Hinduism. Lutterworth Press: Cambridge, England, 2004

These are strange days, knowing that I have moved into Destiny, knowing I am in exactly the right place, agonizing as it is." No war here whatsoever.

A learned man came to me once. He said, "I know the way, -- come." And I was overjoyed at this. Together we hastened. Soon, too soon, were we Where my eyes were useless, And I knew not the ways of my feet. I clung to the hand of my friend; But at last he cried, "I am lost.

I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.

To really live is to waver at the edge of an open-eyed dream, so that everybody's always jerking their head around, sure you're there. And

He just falls and falls, and, in case it looks too much like a sequel set-up, he catches a couple of shattering ledges on the way down, and, on the chance that's not enough, we go

This is the way werewolf stories go. Never any proof. Just a story that keeps changing, like it's twisting back on itself, biting its own stomach to chew the poison out.

God not only plays dice, He throws them in the corner where you can't see them.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

And life's defining moments are usually played under the shadow of doubt.

Si se requiere mucho valor para admitir que no conoces todas las respuestas, imagina lo difícil que es admitir que nis siquiera conoces la pregunta.

We live, if we still do live, in a Sea of Chaos, out of which any fucking monster can evolve.