Uncertainty Quotes - Page 3

• He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Alexander Chalmers (1810). “The idler”, p.229

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• As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Wisdom

  Address to Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin, 27 Jan. 1921

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• This is a dark time, filled with suffering and uncertainty. Like living cells in a larger body, it is natural that we feel the trauma of our world. So don’t be afraid of the anguish you feel, or the anger or fear, because these responses arise from the depth of your caring and the truth of your interconnectedness with all beings.

  Joanna Macy

  Nature, Fear, Anger

  Joanna Macy, Norbert Gahbler (2006). “Pass it On: Five Stories That Can Change the World”, p.105, Parallax Press

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• We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.

  Al Stewart

  Running, Reality, Peers

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• It is an act of courage to acknowledge our own uncertainty and sit with it for a while.

  Harriet Lerner

  Courage, Acts Of Courage, Acknowledge

  Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1986). “The dance of anger: a woman's guide to changing the patterns of intimate relationships”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

  William Osler

  Art, Science, Medicine

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.46, ACP Press

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• There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

  Robert Burns

  Inspirational, Uncertainty Of Life, Cockiness

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• Uncertainty is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom.

  Deepak Chopra

  Creativity, Fertile, Pure

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.60, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• To turn to the Lord and to trust him through revelation will help any individual, at any time, in any part of the world, understand and interpret correctly and righteously life's experiences from the only true perspective, which is the Lord's perspective revealed to man. To turn to the Lord and to trust his revelations is live in such a way as to resist the floods and the winds of doubt and uncertainty.

  Charles A. Didier

  Life, Men, Wind

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• How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Wise, Drama

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.

  Marissa Mayer

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Google's Marissa Mayer: Passion is a gender-neutralizing force" by Felicia Taylor, www.cnn.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Unrest

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1889). “Early and miscellaneous letters”

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• Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions

  Edward Coke

  Mother, Causes, Coke

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• We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.

  James Montgomery Boice

  God, Religious, Future

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• I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

  Jose Saramago

  Positive, Hero, Writing

  "Interview with Jose Saramago, Author of Blindness". Political Affairs Magazine Interview, www.politicalaffairs.net. March 2006.

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• Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

  George Soros

  Investing, Unexpected, Financial

  "Great Money Minds" by Chris Stallman at TeenAnalyst.com, May 5, 2005.

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• The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.

  Charles Macklin

  Science, Law, Justice

  Charles Macklin (1825). “Love a la Mode, Farce. - London, (Oxberry) 1825”, p.25

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• So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

  Ted Nelson

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?

  Horace

  Add, Helping, Tomorrow

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• I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Death, Knowledge, Science

  "Horizon (The Pleasure of Finding Things Out)". Documentary (November 23, 1981), later published in "No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman" edited by Christopher Sykes (p. 239), 1994.

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• Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

  Tacitus

  Haste, Delay, Truth Is

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• Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

  Alan Alda

  Dog, Reality, Advice

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• Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.

  Jim McMahon

  Motivational, Failure, Risk

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• Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

  Alphonse Karr

  Regret, Reality, Evil

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• Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Fear, Struggle, Men

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.119, Princeton University Press

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