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• To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

  Socrates

  Ridiculous, Certainty, Uncomfortable

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• I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Opportunity, Thinking

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• The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Reputation, Tenure

  Charles Dudley Warner (2012). “Washington Irving”, p.11, tredition

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• Being uncertain and scared and riddled with doubt some days isn't a sign of bad things to come. It's actually quite the opposite. After all, if great things weren't on the horizon, I don't think the enemy would be so bent on attacking us.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Thinking, Opposites, Doubt

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Dec 04, 2016

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• If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer

  Ajahn Chah

  Suffering, Certainty, Bounds

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• Human science is an uncertain guess.

  Matt Prior

  Science, Accounts, Humans

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• In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope as surely as we need food and water, love and friendship. The trick, however, is to remember that hope is a perilous thing, that it's not a steel and concrete bridge across the void between this moment and a brighter future. Hope is no stronger than tremulous beads of dew strung on a filament of spider web, and it alone can't long support the terrible weight of an anguished mind and a tortured heart.

  Dean Koontz

  Heart, Bridges, Space

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Seize the Night: A Novel”, p.47, Bantam

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• Knowledge breeds doubt, not certainty,
  And the more we know the more uncertain we become.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Doubt, Certainty, Knows

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• It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness of the tenure by which he holds it; will be less attached to what he holds by a momentary or uncertain title, than to what he enjoys by a durable or certain title; and, of course, will be willing to risk more for the sake of the one, than for the sake of the other.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Risk, Principles

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1826). “The Federalist: On the New Constitution”, p.399

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• The future is uncertain, and therefore I can't predict it.

  Suresh Raina

  I Can

  Source: www.sportskeeda.com

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• The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.

  Carl Jung

  Feelings, Doubt, Kinship

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.37, North Atlantic Books

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• Science is uncertain.

  Richard P. Feynman

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• When you embrace the uncertain, life opens up unusual new paths. Seeds sown way back bloom as flowers, in ways one can never fathom.

  Subroto Bagchi

  Flower, Way, Path

  Subroto Bagchi (2008). “Go Kiss World”, p.111, Penguin UK

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• Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.

  Mark Twain

  Funeral, Religion, World

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.401, Courier Corporation

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• I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.

  Franz Kafka

  Chaos, Empty, Feels

  Franz Kafka, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1974). “I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings”, Schocken

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• When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.

  Terence

  Doubt, Mind, Sides

  "Andria", I, 5, 32, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 826, 1922.

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• I don't like religion very much. I think it's all about people trying to be very certain about things that are very uncertain.

  Gary Panter

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Interview with David Jacob Kramer, believermag.com. June 1, 2009.

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• All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.

  Seneca the Younger

  Lying, Cradle, Graves

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• Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

  Agatha Christie

  Mean, Thinking, Opposites

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Partners in Crime”, Berkley

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• Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.

  John Denham

  Doubt, Despair, Way

  Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham (1857). “The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham”, p.224

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• No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.

  Arthur Helps

  Men, Light, Decision

  Sir Arthur Helps (1852). “Organization in Daily Life: An Essay”, p.11, [s.n.]

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• Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Foundation, Essentials

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States”, p.53

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• Life's uncertain voyage.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Philosophical, Voyages

  'Timon Of Athens' act 5, sc. 1, l. [203]

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• It's a fascinating time, I think. I do believe that with all the qualifications I've said - [such as] the uncertain accuracy of the web - nonetheless the access to speeches, documents is unparalleled with the ease of gathering information. If I had had that access when I was an editor or coming up, it would have made my life so much easier. As it was, everything took so much longer.

  Harold Evans

  Believe, Thinking, Editors

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• The physician who waits until dead certain of a diagnosis before acting is likely to wind up with a dead patient. Sometimes things develop so rapidly that only early action-back when you're still somewhat uncertain-stands a chance of being effective, as in catching cancer before it metastasizes.

  Joel Garreau

  Cancer, Wind, Waiting

  Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.183, Broadway Books

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