Uncertain Quotes
449 quotes by 389 authors
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs,…
— Hannah Arendt
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The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
— Jane Addams
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Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!
— Joseph Addison
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We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.
— Warren Buffett
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You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in…
— Warren Buffett
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side,…
— Willa Cather
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
— Paul Cezanne
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True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
— Winston Churchill
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Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is…
— William J. Clinton
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The unanswerable mysteries... the attitude that all is uncertain... to summarize it - the humility of the intellect.
— Richard P. Feynman
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It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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More and more of out colleagues fail to understand our work because of the high specialization of research problems. We must not be discouraged if…
— Theobald Smith
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Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly turned out to…
— Alister E. McGrath
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I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant…
— Reginald Farrer
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I want to get more comfortable being uncomfortable. I want to get more confident being uncertain. I don't want to shrink back just because something…
— Kristin Armstrong
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Short putts are missed because it is not physically possible to make the little ball travel over uncertain ground for three or four feet with…
— Walter Hagen
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In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.
— Pat Summitt
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There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.
— Scotty Bowman
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