Uncertainty Quotes

“Uncertainty is worse than all”

— Alexander Dumas

“Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck”

— Toba Beta

“Life is not for the faint hearted”

— Nicky Verd

It's a skill to navigate uncertainty.

— Monty Williams

Uncertainty's not good for anybody.

— Roger Goodell

I see it, but I don't believe it.

— Richard Dedekind

Nothing is certain by uncertainty.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

— Bernard Malamud

Basically, markets don't like uncertainty.

— Nomi Prins

Uncertainty in oneself leads to certainty and understanding of all other things.

— Chardonnay Tyson

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

— Oscar Wilde

“In a world of increasing uncertainty, expect...”

— Gino Norris

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

— Robert Burns

When in doubt, throw doubt out and have a little faith.

— Anonymous

It is better to know than having that what if thought dwelling in your mind.

— Ivan Avendano

I don't know what my future holds, but I know it will be better than my past.

— Sonya Parker

Folklore is the perfect second skin. From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the world.

— Jane Yolen

“Given the inverse relationship between predictability and uncertainty, the cost of maintaining business as usual rises significantly.”

— Roger Spitz

We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?

— Rita Mae Brown

“There's a thin line between an uncertain 'Yes' and a certain 'No' known as 'lame indecisiveness'.”

— Aniruddha Sastikar

Prayer is a universal phenomenon in the soul-life of man. It is the soul's reaction to the terrors and joys, the uncertainties…

— Joseph Hertz

This had been real: real in its flaws and uncertainties, real in its small triumphs, real in its compromises and understanding.

— Juliet Marillier

It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by…

— Felix Klein

I'm a two-time breast cancer survivor who lives with pre-existing conditions every day, and I know the uncertainty people face if they…

— Lucy McBath

“Uncertainty is always a precursor to sweeping change; transformation is always preceded by upheaval and fear. I urge you to place your…

— Dan Brown

Some people, both scientists and religious people, deal with uncertainty by being certain. That is dangerous in the fundamentalists and it is…

— Robert Winston

True, trust necessarily carries with it uncertainties, but we must force ourselves to think about these uncertainties as possibilities and opportunities, not…

— Robert C. Solomon

“Oh no. Maybe I'd gotten too cocky. I was still relatively new to this friend business. Had I screwed up even asking?…

— Gwenda Bond

Products a start-up builds are really experiments…Learning about how to build a sustainable business is the outcome of those experiments [which follow]…

— Eric Ries

All we know about Jesus is what someone else wrote down... so really one should say, "Here is what someone wrote down…

— Frank Schaeffer

You cannot love without accepting that there is always a chance of loss or hurt. This is exactly what makes love so…

— Rashida Rowe

There is a tremendous amount of oil in Iraq and it's still very, very cheap due to all the political uncertainty. So…

— Porter Stansberry

“The uncertainty principle signaled an end to Laplace's dream of a theory of science, a model of the universe that would be…

— Stephen Hawking

“If our mental processes become focused on our internal dogmas and isolated from the unfolding, constantly dynamic outside world, we experience mismatches…

— Robert Coram

Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained…

— James W. Loewen

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than…

— Richard P. Feynman

That food nourishes, sleep refreshes, and fire warms us; that to sow in the seed-time is the way to reap in the…

— George Berkeley

I've had two great years, probably five good years. So I had 20 years of just kind of uncertainty and suffering and…

— Louis C. K

“The core predicament of medicine - the thing that makes being a patient so wrenching, being a doctor so difficult, and being…

— Atul Gawande

We don't always know the details of our future. We do not know what lies ahead. We live in a time of…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf