Uncertainty Quotes - Page 35

• Knowing where you are going takes the uncertainty out of getting there

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Christian, Knowing, Where You Are

  Anne Graham Lotz (2014). “Heaven: My Father's House”, p.1, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A review of the science suggests that uncertainty is so high as to raise a good prospect that mandatory green house gas reductions will produce little or no environmental benefit.

  Kenneth P. Green

  House, Environmental, Benefits

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• How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!

  Sophocles

  Knowledge, Oedipus, Ontology

  Sophocles (1977). “The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version”, Harcourt

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• Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Life, People

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• The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.

  William Henry Harrison

  Adventure, Government, Law

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• An underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Purchasing power is weakened by uncertainty or insufficiency of income. The cure of business depression is through purchasing power, and the source of purchasing power is wages.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Political, Income

  Henry Ford (2006). “The Great To-Day and Greater Future”, p.194, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The dream of coming back is becoming a reality. A lot of the uncertainty about the future has been cleared up. A lot of people are no longer cursing the darkness and have started lighting candles and doing positive things.

  Paul Tagliabue

  Dream, Reality, People

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• I'm their biggest fan every Sunday they go out there and play. I'm pulling for them, for the people in New Orleans and everything they're going through. If there are three or four hours that people can get away from the reality that is existing for them right now, the uncertainty, the unknown, the Saints can bring a sense of pride to them for that short period of time.

  Bill Cowher

  Pride, Sunday, Reality

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• Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live. We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Courage, Men, Zest

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.120, Beacon Press

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• An argument is made that there are just too many question marks about the near future; wouldn't it be better to wait until things clear up a bit? You know the prose: "Maintain buying reserves until current uncertainties are resolved," etc. Before reaching for that crutch, face up to two unpleasant facts: The future is never clear and you pay a very high price for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.

  Warren Buffett

  Two, Long, Waiting

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• Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.

  Isaac Asimov

  Ignorance, Knowing, Deep Life

  Isaac Asimov (2002). “It's Been a Good Life”, Pyr Books

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• The old shepherd was right: The only solution was to forget a part of uncertainty and create a new history for oneself.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Shepherds

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• However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than they reward truth tellers. One of the lessons of the financial crisis that led to the Great Recession is that there are periods in which competition, among experts and among organizations, creates powerful forces that favor a collective blindness to risk and uncertainty.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Powerful, Organization, Optimism

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• My biggest disappointment was, of course, the coup attempts, ... The economy was proceeding very well, but in 1989 we had the most serious coup attempt and ... many of the investors who were set to come here had to tell me that they chose to go to other countries because of the uncertainty brought about by (the coup attempt.) If that had not happened, I'm sure our economy would just be booming today.

  Corazon Aquino

  Country, Disappointment, Today

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• Trust in my wisdom. I do not make mistakes. Love my uncertainty for it is not a mistake. It is my intent and will. Remember - nothing happens without my will. Be still. Do not ask to understand. Do not want to understand.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Mistake, Want, Remember

  Sanathana Sarathi (Magazine), August 1984.

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• This is my prayer for all of us — 'Lord, increase our faith.' Increase our faith to bridge the chasms of uncertainty and doubt. Grant us faith to look beyond the problems of the moment to the miracles of the future. Give us faith to do what is right and let the consequence follow.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Prayer, Bridges, Giving

  "Lord, Increase Our Faith". Ensign magazine, pp. 52-53, November 1987.

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• Uncertainty is the friend of the buyer of long term values.

  Warren Buffett

  Long, Buyers, Term

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• In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.

  Paul Tillich

  Character, Courageous, Shows

  Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.22, University of Chicago Press

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• The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.

  Georg Cantor

  Mind, Myopia, Ontology

  "Infinity and the Mind". Book by Rudy Rucker, 1982.

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• Simply being with someone is difficult because it asks of us that we share in the other's vulnerability, enter with him or her into the experience of weakness and powerlessness, become part of the uncertainty, and give up control and self-determination.

  Henri Nouwen

  Determination, Giving Up, Self

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• I pursue no objectives, no systems, no tendency; I have no program, no style, no direction. I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes, or variations that lead to mastery. I steer clear of definitions. I don’t know what I want. I am inconsistent, non-committal, passive; I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty.

  Gerhard Richter

  Style, Want, Mastery

  Robert Storr, Gerhard Richter, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (2002). “Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting”, p.42, The Museum of Modern Art

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• In this era of uncertainty and conflict, the United States - blessed with the world's strongest military, most ingenious economy, and most tolerant society - remains a model and leader to the world.

  Joe Lieberman

  Military, Blessed, Leader

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• All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more.

  Oskar Kokoschka

  Expression, Fundamentals, Dimensions

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• For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must be the general law; the minor, the action that conforms or does not conform to the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punishment. If the judge were constrained, or if he desired to frame even a single additional syllogism, the door would thereby be opened to uncertainty.

  Cesare Beccaria

  Doors, Law, Punishment

  Cesare Beccaria (1963). “On Crimes and Punishments”, Pearson College Division

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• In times of uncertainty there is a special breed of warrior ready to answer our Nation’s call; a common man with uncommon desire to succeed. Forged by adversity, he stands alongside America’s finest special operations forces to serve his country and the American people, and to protect their way of life. I am that man.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Country, Adversity, Warrior

  Marcus Luttrell, Patrick Robinson (2010). “Lone Survivor: The Incredible True Story of Navy SEALs Under Siege”, p.8, Hachette UK

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