Uncertainty Quotes - Page 21

• A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty

  Eric Ries

  Soil, Institutions, Thrive

  Brant Cooper, Patrick Vlaskovits, Eric Ries (2016). “The Lean Entrepreneur: How Visionaries Create Products, Innovate with New Ventures, and Disrupt Markets”, p.15, John Wiley & Sons

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• Moses became Americas true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.

  Bruce Feiler

  Father, People, Risk

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• Major organizational changes create uncertainty.

  Irene Rosenfeld

  Organizational, Majors

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• You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Taxes, Raises

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• There will be very few occasions when you are absolutely certain about anything. You will consistently be called upon to make decisions with limited information. That being the case, your goal should not be to eliminate uncertainty. Instead, you must develop the art of being clear in the face of uncertainty.

  Andy Stanley

  Art, Goal, Decision

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.81, Multnomah

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• The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.

  Daphne Koller

  Needs, World, Noise

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• Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. Thats half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Country, Land, People

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• My narrative is that I've never known what's coming next-I still don't. I fell down the right set of stairs and have been surrounded by people who have picked me up and said, “Let's try this again.” It's been one anxious block of uncertainty after another.

  Merlin Mann

  Block, People, Trying

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• Uncertainty is inevitable at the frontiers of knowledge.

  Joel Achenbach

  Inevitable, Frontiers

  "What makes some people so suspicious of the findings of science?" by Joel Achenbach, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2015.

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• In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language - the current crop of American poets necessarily give up on others.

  Stephen Burt

  Giving Up, Poetry, Personality

  Stephen Burt (2009). “Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry”, Graywolf Press

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• I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.

  David Nicholls

  Expectations, Great Expectations, Kind

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• And though behind you lies a road of dust and heat and discouragement, and before you the challenge and uncertainty of untried paths, in this brief hour you are master of all highways, and the universe nestles in your soul.

  Max Ehrmann

  Lying, Dust, Challenges

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• As I see our world, I have never seen greater confusion, greater loss of meaning, greater uncertainty, and greater fear of what looms in front of us. Politics has gotten out of control everywhere. Nobody sees a mascot or a leader, and everyone wants to know what really lies ahead here.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Lying, Loss, Our World

  Source: rzim.org

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• You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing interest ceases also.... But a Catholic by mystery means an incomprehensible certainty: without certainty, without formulation there is no interest;... the clearer the formulation the greater the interest.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Mean, Interesting, Catholic

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1966). “A Hopkins reader: selections”

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• Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Religion, Useless

  Baruch Spinoza (2017). “A Theologico-Political Treatise”, Jovian Press

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• At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.

  Mason Cooley

  Giving, Aging, Vistas

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• Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Sound, Philosopher, Affair

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• We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to any pointand to fasten to it, it wavers and leaves us; and if we follow it, it eludes our grasp, slips past us, and vanishes for ever. Nothing stays for us.

  Blaise Pascal

  Knowledge, Past, Thinking

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• It is up to my spirit to find the truth. But how? Grave uncertainty, each time the spirit feels beyond its own comprehension; whenit, the explorer, is altogether to obscure land that it must search and where all its baggage is of no use. To search? That is not all: to create.

  Marcel Proust

  Creativity, Knowledge, Land

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• Robin [Williams] was a world treasure. As we mourn his tragic death, we must remember him for the great waves of laughter that he was able to illicit from us, how his humor and insights - though they came from a place of pain and uncertainty - connected us and reminded us of how flawed and fragile...how human we are. How we are capable of moments of inspired transcendence and others of unspeakable despair.

  Glenn Close

  Leadership, Wisdom, Pain

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• That food nourishes, sleep refreshes, and fire warms us; that to sow in the seed-time is the way to reap in the harvest, and, in general, that to obtain such or such ends, such or such means are conducive, all this we know, not by discovering any necessary connexion between our ideas, but only by the observation of the settled laws of nature, without which we should be all in uncertainty and confusion, and a grown man no more know how to manage himself in the affairs of life than an infant just born.

  George Berkeley

  Mean, Sleep, Men

  George Berkeley (2013). “Principles of Human Knowledge”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• The whole [of religion] is a riddle, an ænigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the onlyresult of our most accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject.

  David Hume

  Doubt, Religion, Mystery

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• The whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the only result of ourmost accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject. But such is the frailty of human reason, and such the irresistible contagion of opinion, that even this deliberate doubt could scarcely be upheld; did we not enlarge our view, and opposing one species of superstition to another, set them a quarrelling; while we ourselves, during their fury and contention, happily make our escape into the calm, though obscure, regions of philosophy.

  David Hume

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Views

  'Four Dissertations' (1757) 'The Natural History of Religion' sect. 15

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• Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and endless contrarieties, even in subjects of common life and practice.... When these topics are displayed in their full light, as they are by some philosophers and almost all divines; who can retain such confidence in this frail faculty of reason as to pay any regard to its determinations in points so sublime, so abstruse, so remote from common life and experience?

  David Hume

  Determination, Practice, Light

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.4014, Delphi Classics

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• In the strict formulation of the law of causality—if we know the present, we can calculate the future—it is not the conclusion that is wrong but the premise.
  On an implication of the uncertainty principle.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Future, Uncertainty Principle, Law

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