Uncertainty Quotes

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying. J.
Paul Getty

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
R. I. Fitzhenry

Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.
John Allen Paulos

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.

We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.

Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
John Finley

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
Pliny the Elder

Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions
Edward Coke

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
R. I. Fitzhenry

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.







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