Contingency Quote by Charles Hugh Smith

Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.

— Brian Greene

“Access to information can be empowering. When it overwhelms us, constantly bombarding us with data, infobesity eventually estranges us from ourselves and holds us…

— Erik Pevernagie

“The human brain has a deceptive habit of filling in missing information and ignoring new information that doesn’t fit the expectation.”

— David L. Hough

“An important consequence of these observations is that our consciousness of unexpected events lags considerably behind the real world. Not only do we consciously…

— Stanislas Dehaene

There are volumes and libraries of information in our minds and we are continually weighing information. We hear new things, we compare it with…

— Kai Greene

Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.

— Amelia Earhart

People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate…

— Nate Silver

It gives us more flexibility, so we can do more, but it also creates the expectation of the instant response. It can take away…

— Ellen Galinsky

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

— Anonymous

Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum. We don't interrupt our patterns even slightly. With practice, however, we learn to stay with a…

— Pema Chodron

It's a skill to navigate uncertainty.

— Monty Williams

In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty...

— Robert M. Pirsig