Quotes About Uncertainty

There's always the certainty that the opposite of what I might believe in might also be true.

It's as if I'm afloat in a sea of change. Each piece of wreckage to which I cling has limited buoyancy and soon sinks, forcing me to hold tightly to another and then another.

Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.

A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.

Each lifetime had been different, as each choice is always different, unpredictable in its outcome or effect. Yet those choices had to be made, Jeff thought. He'd learned to accept the potential losses, in the hope that they would be outweighed by the gains. The only certain failure, he knew, and the most grievous, would be never to risk at all.

Do not stop doing what God has called you to do because you do not understand what is going on. Just be a witness.

Man impatiently yearns to penetrate the future, but as often as not the veil which hides tomorrow is the merciful dispensation of a shielding Providence.

software development was insecurities all the way down. Even

Terror has to be random...that's how to really break people, when they don't know what rules to follow to keep them out of trouble.

It's education that's meant to take us into this future that we can't grasp.

The reason that neither he nor I could predict my life, any more than you can predict yours, is that life is not linear; it is organic.

Children starting school this year will be retiring in 2070. No one has any idea of what the world will look like in ten years' time, let alone in 2070. There are two major drivers of change—technology and demography.

Can you make a wrong turn when you don't know where you're going?

There's no such thing in this world as absolute certainty. So accept that and go forward acting toward the best outcome no matter what.

How could a choice be called free when its consequences are unknown at the time of our choosing?

There seemed to be no end to this wood, and no beginning, and no difference in it, and, worse of all, no way out

Marriage is like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it.

When is it safe to invest?' there are two answers ... 1. Never! 2. Always! `Never for' the crowd... `Always' for the reasonable man; for it all depends upon what you call `safe,' in a world peopled by fallible human beings.

Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to any rational system again. Nothing will bind me.

A masterpiece of vagueness.

There are so many little dyings How do we know which one of them is death?

It's dark out, Jack, the stations out there don't identify themselves, we're in it raw-blind like burned rats, it's running out all around us, the footprints of the beast, one nobody has any notion of. The white and vacant eyes of something above there, something that doesn't know we exist. I smell heartbreak up there, Jack, a heartbreak at the center of things, and in which we don't figure at all.

But if your precious illusion should turn out not to be real, where then will you leap, my little flea?

While a "don't-know mind" is alive and full of possibilities, a mind that claims to know is a closed and stagnant one.