Quotes About Uncertainty

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.

I really do not know. I really do not know how to solve the problem of the Philippines. I cannot be the savior of this republic.

We like to think we can solve everything, but we can't always.

Brexit is not going to solve the causes of Brexit.

Sometimes, it feels artificial to try to come up with a solution to something that none of us know how to solve.

I grew up in a life where the answer was always there, I guess. But now I'm out on my own and still looking for the answer. Nothing is solved for me.

Climbing, for me, is all about solving the magnitude of the problem. The best projects are the ones with big question marks hanging over them.

I found that the things I am afraid of most are things for which there are no obvious remedies. Like, what do you do with a fear of death? You either come to terms with it or you don't, but there's no solving it.

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

Nobody really knows what they're doing. Some are just better at pretending like they do.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly.

Some things you'll never know, and some things you'll wish you never knew.

Some things never change - there will be another crisis, and its impact will be felt by the financial markets.

I know that some things are beyond our control, some illnesses are beyond our control, we get sick, we don't know why. But let's pledge to do whatever we can to avoid those high medical bills.

It's very weird about movies: you never know which ones are going to stay alive and which one are going to be meaningless. When you're there, you couldn't possibly predict it. Some things slowly die, and others slowly stay a while.

I accept the fact that some things don't go the way you hope.

Some things you can't control.

In life, some things don't always work out the way you plan them.

There was no precedent. If I asked somebody, 'What do you expect me to do?' they all looked blank. They had no idea; nobody had much idea.

Maybe someday, I'll just make, like, a complete on-demand record that everybody wants to hear. But that would be impossible and, also, I just changed my mind. I don't think I'll ever do that.