Uncertainty Quotes
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Uncertainty Quotes & Sayings
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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Never perceive anything as being inevitable or predestined. The only absolute is uncertainty.
— Lionel Suggs
Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.
— Jerry Saltz
I'm immortal. You consider the future because one day you'll die. I don't have that uncertainty." - Kiaran
— Elizabeth May
It is uncertainty which fills life with beauty, excitement, and joy.
— Debasish Mridha
Uncertainty is killing this economy.
— Herman Cain
Any universe simple enough to be understood is too simple to produce a mind able to understand it-Barrow's Uncertainty Principle — John D. Barrow
He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
— Samuel Johnson
These are precisely the conditions that killed love, after first blighting its growth: squalor, fear, uncertainty, overfamiliarity.
— Patrick McGrath
Uncertainty is as good a way as any to kill a story.
— Sidney Zion
Investors don't like uncertainty.
— Kenneth Lay
I wasn't sure what was worse: being oblivious or living within reality. (Eric)
— Shannon A. Thompson
There is no such thing as zero uncertainty.
— Usama Fayyad
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ... live in the question. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Like most cancer survivors, lived with uncertainty.
— John Green
In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty ...
— Robert M. Pirsig
Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.
— Brian Greene
People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
— Timothy Ferriss
This means intentionally adding distance that creates an edgy instability or uncertainty, a slight and enjoyable dissatisfaction.
— Emily Nagoski
The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.
— Jurgen Habermas
Thus, the more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, and conversely.
— Werner Heisenberg
The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
— Oscar Wilde
There's a thin line between an uncertain 'Yes' and a certain 'No' known as 'lame indecisiveness'.
— Aniruddha Sastikar
Whenever she felt besieged by doubts, she would think of herself as standing valiantly alone, as almost heroic, so as to squash her uncertainty.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know." It is "I can't know." "I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain."
— Werner Heisenberg
When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.
— Terence
Or maybe you're merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.
— Jerry Spinelli
About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box.
— Arnold Gingrich
The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.
— Markus Zusak
Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else's simply because I know why I said what I said.
— Criss Jami
While Aves, however real, exists in a world of uncertainty, Telemachus is a judgment as sure as night or day.
— Peter Gray
...the future is closed to us; were it not, life would be insupportable, as only uncertainty admits of hope
— Stanley Michael Hurd
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
— Erich Fromm
Most business people today are not going to invest in the uncertainty that exists in America.
— Howard Schultz
In conditions of uncertainty, humans, like other animals, herd together for protection.
— James Surowiecki
Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.
— Pema Chodron
Maturity means being able to tolerate, on all sorts of planes, uncertainty and not knowing.
— Hazel Johns
You can think a thing over many times and still have no idea how you'll answer the question, if ever it's asked.
— Laurie Graham
Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.
— Gail Sheehy
Uncertainty makes people anxious, and distraction is the twenty-first century opiate of the masses.
— Meg Jay
There is a loneliness that can be consuming when one thrashes about with unspoken things, things that evoke shame or uncertainty or self-hatred.
— Andrea Raynor
Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
— Barbara Jordan
Risk is uncertainty injected into our most vulnerable places. And because that's the case, we may choose not to risk.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
But in my professional life, I have learned to accept uncertainty and even embrace it.
— Sheryl Sandberg
Far too much horrific wast of human capacity is disguised as order, predictability, and minimizing uncertainty.
— Bill Jensen
In an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty, the one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge.
— Ikujiro Nonaka
I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon is a mystery.
— Leslie Jamison
Keeping your mind open in the face of uncertainty is the single most powerful secret of unleashing your creative potential.
— Michael J. Gelb
I like uncertainty in roles, and I like uncertainty in art, really.
— Martin Freeman
Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.
— Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.
— Marsilio Ficino
In the midst of global recession, in the face of uncertainty about what's going to happen next, film looks for inspiration to real people.
— Simon Beaufoy
Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.
— Oswald Chambers
I discovered something attractive about uncertainty. It was the knowledge that God was in control and that I was depending on him every moment.
— Yilda B. Rivera
My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty and torture.
— James Patterson
Each appointment brought fear, uncertainty and discouragement. Ann's constant concern was, What if I have cancer?
— K. Howard Joslin
We need to be humble in the face of uncertainty
— Paul DePodesta
Let go of consistency, let go of certainty. Learn to live with the waves of change and uncertainty.
— Debasish Mridha
Content not to know my purpose here or where I'm going.
— Marty Rubin
The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life.
— Edgar Morin
Life's most precious gift is uncertainty.
— Yoshida Kenko
I rescued him from the certainty of a turmoil and put him in a turmoil of uncertainty.
— Khaled Hosseini
I don't know Who is cranking; I'm pleased He doesn't stop.
— Robert A. Heinlein
A time of uncertainty, of not knowing exactly where we're headed, or what kind of choice to make is a Zen moment.
— Brenda Shoshanna
Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.
— Djuna Barnes
Faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Knowing where you are going takes the uncertainty out of getting there
— Anne Graham Lotz
