Uncertain Quotes
449 Uncertain quotes by 380 unique authors
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When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for…
— Frank Iero
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Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality; for nothing comes…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Still uncertain as to our identity, we think that what matters in the work world is gaining attention and making friends. And these misconceptions and…
— Robert Greene
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We see and understand more about our behaviors. We come aware. And aware. And aware. . . Often, we feel uncertain about what to do…
— Melody Beattie
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In todays uncertain economy, the safest solution to be wealthy, be in total control and enjoy freedom for you and your family is to have…
— Robert G. Allen
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Natural hazards, however formidable, are inherently less dangerous and less uncertain than fighting hazards. All conditions are more calculable, all obstacles more surmountable than those…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving…
— Fanny Kemble
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No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain…
— Michel de Montaigne
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A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men…
— Charles Dickens
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It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears
— Joseph Hall
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The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain...
— Paul Gauguin
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No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived…
— Arthur Helps
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Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and may be taken in a good as in a bad sense
— David Hume
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It may well happen that what is in itself the more certain on account of the weakness of our intelligence, which is dazzled by the…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Rather than a universe of static certainty, at the most fundamental level of matter, the world and its relationships were uncertain and unpredictable, a state…
— Lynne McTaggart
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Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's…
— Jamais Cascio
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It can be a good thing if deeper theology, or philosophy, only makes one more uncertain. It may lead to a healthy doubt; he may…
— Criss Jami
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To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data.…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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I think a good writer is a mix of confidence (sure that what they're writing is going to appeal to their readers) and uncertainty (what…
— Charles de Lint
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Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If he wants meaning-the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life-a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however…
— Jed Rubenfeld
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Equity is a roguish thing. For Law we have a measure, know what to trust to; Equity is according to the conscience of him that…
— John Selden
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Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to…
— Michael J. Fox
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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
— Anatole France
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