Uncertainty Quotes

906 Uncertainty quotes by 643 unique authors

Though lovers be lost love shall not. — Dylan Thomas
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. — Alan Turing
It's the uncertainty, the challenge and the willingness to put it all on the line that draws a lot of people to climb mountains. That… — Mark Udall
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our… — Marianne Williamson
Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. String theory does so again because a point particle… — Edward Witten
Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of… — Julian Baggini
The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really… — Julian Baggini
Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away. — Andy Stanley
...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft. — Joseph Brodsky
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs… — Richard P. Feynman
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown — H P Lovecraft
We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no insoluble problems,no snags;… — Paul Tournier
In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty… — Richard P. Feynman
Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not… — Carl von Clausewitz
Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of the… — Annie Dillard
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. — Mark Twain
He was weary of the uncertainty of the vicious circle of that eternal war that always found him in the same place, but always older,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the woman I might… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in… — Madeleine L'Engle
The very essence of romance is uncertainty. — Oscar Wilde
She has her own glamour, Willy lad. All poets do, all the bards and artists, all the musicians who truly take the music into their… — Emma Bull
We're not obsessed by anything, you see," insisted Ford. "..." "And that's the deciding factor. We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They… — Douglas Adams
Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty. — Xiaolu Guo
The death of God left the angels in a strange position. — Donald Barthelme
To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit… — Sarah Orne Jewett

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