Quotes About Uncertainty

I'm not sure if my dream is a dream, or a nightmare.

She didn't have an answer for that. People like her only ever have questions.

At minimum, there may be an implication that one of the great challenges for intelligent cultural beings may be to learn to cope with, and perhaps finally accept, a profound and deep sense of uncertainty regarding any larger cosmic sense of meaning and purpose—that such an uncertainty may have to be treated as a kind of empirical question to be possibly addressed over very long time periods as evidence is accumulated, but perhaps without ever obtaining a satisfactory answer.

Coping with the uncertainty of larger cosmic objective meaning may be one of the most profound challenges sufficiently aware beings have to face [...]. Indeed, human beings might be further along in this regard than may be commonly thought—much of the human population seems to able to cope without religion and without a larger sense of cosmic meaning and purpose.

Reality, truth, and knowledge are matters about which there is less consensus than one might hope.

Predestination … and salvation are clean taken out of our hands, and put in the hands of God only … for we are so weak and so uncertain, that if it stood in us, there would of a truth be no man saved; the devil, no doubt, would deceive us.23

There are some questions, after all, that we never get answers to. Some doors remain locked forever, and that's life.

It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn't actually exist at all.

The Doctor: 'You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine, but you really think they're lying to make you feel better?' Amelia: 'Yeah...' The Doctor: 'Everything's going to be fine.

Unele idei revin la via?? iar ?i iar, chiar dac? ar putea s? fie imposibil de confirmat vreodat?.

A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It's only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.

Doubt leads to thought, thought leads to failure. Now

But in Rome one's path is never entirely clear of enemies. When even a perfect stranger could prove to be Nemesis, no man can protect himself completely. What point is there in cowering away in another man's house, behind the spear of another man's guard? Fortune is the only true protection against death;

There is nothing so unsure as the plans we make that rely on the sensible behavior of another human being.

During times of pandemic, people need to be able to tolerate or accept a certain degree of uncertainty. People who are unable or unwilling to accept uncertainty are likely to experience considerable distress.

The real difference between Aristarchus and today's astronomers and physicists is not that his observational data were in error, but that he never tried to judge the uncertainty in them, or even acknowledged that they might be imperfect.

This also serves as a warning, that science may not yet be in its final form.

Todo es impredecible y no obedece a ningún plan, pero conduce a un conocimiento fiable, y disfrutamos al andar el camino.

I'm living on a one-way, dead-end street. I don't know how I got there.

My life is vile I hate it so I'll wait awhile And then I'll go. Why wait at all? Hope springs alive, Good may befall I yet may thrive. It is because I can't make up my mind If God is good, impotent or unkind. - The Reason

Everything looks like a failure in the middle." Any

Perhaps one of the most important lessons of philosophy is to teach us how to live with the questions unanswered , rather than settle for unsatisfactory but popular answers.

To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.

My heart was fluttering madly as if I was in the presence of a new lover, of whom I was uncertain.