Uncertain Quotes
449 Uncertain quotes by 380 unique authors
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It's unclear how air strikes on our part can succeed unless the Iraqi army is willing to fight, and that's uncertain given the fact that…
— Carl Levin
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Be patient with all that is uncertain in your heart...do not search for answers, which will not be given: you will not be able to…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Remember, life is always uncertain. Everything dead is certain, life is always uncertain. Everything dead is solid, fixed - its nature cannot be changed; everything…
— Rajneesh
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A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.
— Heraclitus
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It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not…
— Aristotle
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Because your brain uses information from the areas around the blind spot to make a reasonable guess about what the blind spot would see if…
— Daniel Gilbert
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Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about a truth. Everyone…
— Saint Augustine
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Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This is disillusioning for…
— Isaac Asimov
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The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be of a statistical…
— Werner Heisenberg
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I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day…
— Mark Twain
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Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with other incident throes…
— William Shakespeare
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It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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The planetary phase of history has begun, but the future shape of global society remains profoundly uncertain. Though perhaps improbable, a shift toward a planetary…
— Unknown Author
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It is not certain that everything is uncertain.
— Blaise Pascal
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False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and forsaken…
— Samuel Johnson
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Death is a vast mystery, but there are two things we can say about it: It is absolutely certain that we will die, and it…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Nothing is so fickle and uncertain as popularity. It is here today and gone tomorrow. It is a sandy foundation, and sure to fail those…
— J C Ryle
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Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.
— Erich Fromm
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Every child deserves a chance at a life filled with love, laughter, friends and family. We are working to find the cures that will give…
— Marlo Thomas
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Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an uncertain future and…
— James Surowiecki
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I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response. But when I…
— Susan Sontag
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For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become…
— Bruce Schneier
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Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged with…
— Hugh Miller
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The modern joint stock firm is the outcome of innumerable decisions made by individual entrepreneurs, owners and managers. For these decision makers the choices among…
— Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
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