Uncertainty Quotes
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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
Carl von Clausewitz
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Small businesses all across this nation are tired of the uncertainty created by Washington.
Sam Graves
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In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting - not ever.
Farrah Fawcett
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Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
William Osler
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The euro must be defended, or uncertainty about the European Union will be widespread.
Viktor Orban
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Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.
Oscar Wilde
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People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty
Virginia Satir
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In fact, the same difficulties faced by Reagan in the 1980-s are still there [in the beginning of 21 century]: how do you hit a bullet with a bullet? The technology is getting better, but it still is focused on one interceptor knocking down one missile. In war, there would be many more challenges, more chaos, more uncertainty.
David Hoffman
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One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.
Mark Twain
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Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We have to learn to live with uncertainty.
Gerd Gigerenzer
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Where focus goes, energy flows. And where energy flows, whatever you're focusing on grows. In other words, your life is controlled by what you focus on. That's why you need to focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear. When you next find yourself in a state of uncertainty, resist your fear. Shift your focus toward where you want to go and your actions will take you in that direction.
Anthony Robbins
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“Metaphors replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up.”
Amos Tversky
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The promises of God are His guarantees amid life's uncertainties. They're the basis of all our life of faith.
David Jeremiah
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You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things... It doesn't frighten me.
Richard Feynman
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Until I know this sure uncertainty, I'll entertain the offered fallacy.
William Shakespeare
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It's only in uncertainty that we're naked and alive.
Peter Gabriel Genesis
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To accpet the world as boring or accept oneself as boring? Which is really more agreeable? There's bound to be some amount of ambiguity and uncertainty.
Nisio Isin
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Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.
Lois Wyse
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The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.
Tom Stoppard
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In horror of death, I took to the mountains - again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, capturing the fortress of the deathless unending nature of mind. Now all fear of death is over and done.
Milarepa
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Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The entrepreneurial role appears to call for decision-making under uncertainty
David McClelland
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What the Fed is really trying to say is that it doesn't know what it is going to do next. And if the markets abhor anything, it is uncertainty. Expect bond and stock market volatility to increase from here until the inflation outlook solidifies.
Scott Anderson