Uncertainty Quotes - Page 28

• Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

  Oscar Wilde

  Would Be, Wonderful, Mist

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.156, GENERAL PRESS

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• We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, we can duck, that is all; we neither know nor can determine where it will fall." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 6

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Lying, Fall, Ducks

  Title of translation of his novel Im Westen nichts Neues (Nothing New in the West, 1929). Cf. the title of a poem by Ethel L. Beers: All Quiet along the Potomac (1861)

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• Pour the bulk of your time into action, not deciding. The state of indecision is a major time waster. Don't spend more than 60 seconds in that state if you can avoid it. Make a firm, immediate decision, and move from uncertainty to certainty to action. Let the world tell you when you're wrong, and you'll soon build enough experience to make accurate, intelligent decisions.

  Steve Pavlina

  Moving, Intelligent, Decision

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• In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope.

  O. Carl Simonton

  Hopeful, Faces

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• Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Opportunity, Waiting, Really Living

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• I wasn't going to be one of those people who died wondering what if? I would keep putting my dreams to the test - even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.

  Alex Haley

  Dream, People, What If

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• To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether there is an answer.

  Ray Dolby

  Anxiety, Darkness, Answers

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• Don't let not knowing how it'll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.

  Bob Goff

  Knowing, Waiting, Ends

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Aug 29, 2014

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• Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Children, Giving, Way

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• When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Pain, Responsibility, Relief

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.370, Transaction Publishers

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• Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.

  Gail Sheehy

  Natural Talent, Suffering, Embarrassment

  Gail Sheehy (2013). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, p.349, Penguin

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• When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Motivational, Infinite, Possibility

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.166, Penguin

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• Life is. I am. Anything might happen. And I believe I may invest my life with meaning. The uncertainty is a blessing in disguise. If I were absolutely certain about all things, I would spend my life in anxious misery, fearful of losing my way. But since everything and anything are always possible, the miraculous is always nearby and wonders shall never, ever cease.

  Robert Fulghum

  Life, Believe, Blessing

  Robert Fulghum (2011). “Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life”, p.5, Ballantine Books

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• If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Creativity, Alertness, Turns

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.167, Penguin

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• You must eliminate from your thoughts all doubt and uncertainty that you will get well; that you will succeed; that you will gain your point and get what you want. You may have some uncertainty as to methods, but you must have none as to ultimate results. You may not feel certain that you will succeed today, or next week, but you must feel certain that you will succeed sometime.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Get Well, Next Week, Doubt

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• The way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff.

  Bob Goff

  Jesus, Stuff, Way

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Dec 17, 2014

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• Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.

  Pema Chodron

  Spiritual, Knack, Panic

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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• Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Mark, Certainty

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Love of God: An Intimate Look at the Father-Heart of God”, p.113, Discovery House

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• As you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you do and no longer prevents you from taking action to initiate change.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Action, Infinite

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.166, Penguin

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• Writing should be an adventure, shrouded in mystery and uncertainty, blessed with amazing grace. In theory, of course

  Syd Field

  Blessed, Writing, Adventure

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• There is also something deeply lovely about uncertainty: the possibility of optimism.

  Joan Wickersham

  Optimism, Lovely, Possibility

  "7 Truths Women Have To Learn The Hard Way" by Joan Wickersham, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 7, 2013.

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• Fashion is like life. It needs fear and uncertainty if you are to move forward.

  Alber Elbaz

  Fashion, Moving, Needs

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• Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Diffidence

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.4

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• Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.

  John Donne

  Men, Doubt, Phrases

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.462

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• We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.

  Albert Camus

  Lasts, Certain, Conclusion

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