Quotes About Uncertainty

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.

A decision is an action you must take when you have information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.

It is always thus, impaled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions.

Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions.

Between two stools one sits on the ground.

A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself; he is as a wave of the sea, or a feather in the air which every breeze blows about.

Not to decide is to decide.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

After a battle is over people talk a lot about how decisions were methodically reached, but actually there's always a hell of a lot of groping around.

You can and you can't, You will and you won't; You'll be damn'd if you do, You'll be damn'd if you don't.

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.

When in doubt, win the trick.

And he that doubteth is damned if he eat.

Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable ... we must be content to creep along the ground, and can never soar.

Our lives are never certain, even for an hour.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next.

Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing.

The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.

Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

We are not certain, we are never certain.

We live in an epoch in which the solid ground of our preconceived ideas shakes daily under our certain feet.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgment of probabilities, and not on certainties.