Uncertainty Quotes

• Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Uncertainty
  • Unrest

• 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
  • Different
  • Doubt
  • Ignorance

• We know that uncertainty creates anxiety and sometimes desperate attempts to find something to believe in. Uncertainty engenders real opportunity as well as misleading choices, great leaders as well as false messiahs, and new ways of understanding the world alongside hollow maxims and deceptive promises. Understandably, we seek guides and guideposts to ease the anxiety of the journey. But we also need to depend on our own insights and imagination to cultivate, from our own experience, a way to move forward.

  

  Alan Briskin
  • Journey
  • Anxiety
  • Uncertainty

• Humans are wired to feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and contingency, and so we gravitate to a position after a short time even if we have no new information.

  

  Charles Hugh Smith
  • Feels
  • Humans
  • Information

• You see, in sports you have so many things that aren't expected. There's so much uncertainty. So when players find themselves in a situation where management has a great deal of integrity and they can depend on my word or anybody else's word in the organization, they feel secure. And if the players feel secure, they don't want to leave here. And if they don't want to leave here, they're going to do everything they can on the court to stay here.

  

  Red Auerbach
  • Player
  • Sports
  • Situation

• We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Keys
  • Uncertainty

• The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies.

  

  Paul Cook
  • Military
  • Uncertainty
  • Aggression

• We are only human, a condition of perpetual uncertainty and failure.

  

  Craig Davidson
  • Failure
  • Human
  • Condition

• But doubt is a crucial to faith as darkness is to light. Without one, the other has no context and is meaningless. Faith is, by definition, uncertainty. It is full of doubt, steeped in risk. It is about matters not of the known, but of the unknown.

  

  Carter Heyward
  • Risk
  • Doubt
  • Darkness

• It is not surprising that in talking about uncertainty we should lean heavily on facts, just as the court of law does when interrogating witnesses. Facts form a sort of bedrock on which we can build the shifting sands of uncertainty.

  

  Dennis Lindley
  • Surprising
  • Witnesses
  • Bedrock

• Leave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring a warlike apparatus at the moment of public danger.

  

  George Washington
  • War
  • Moments
  • Danger

• About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box.

  

  Arnold Gingrich
  • Fishing
  • Catch
  • Uncertainty

• The bottom line is there is large uncertainty because nobody has a very good handle on aerodynamics at those altitudes and at those speeds. Given that large degree of uncertainty, life could be normal during entry or some bad things could happen.

  

  Wayne Hale
  • Happens
  • Speed
  • Normal

• Decreasing economic growth and increasing inequality leads to increased uncertainty.

  

  Nicholas Bloom
  • Growth
  • Uncertainty
  • Inequality

• America and its allies face many risks and problems in Iraq, but it is all too easy to snatch defeat from the jaws of uncertainty.

  

  Anthony H. Cordesman
  • America
  • Risks
  • Uncertainty

• You know, businesses hate uncertainty more than anything else.

  

  Carwyn Jones
  • Hate
  • Knows
  • Uncertainty

• The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Uncertainty
  • Phenomena
  • Recognizes

• I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Opportunity
  • Interesting
  • Progress

• Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

  

  Carre Otis
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Change

• Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Doubt
  • Teach
  • Judgment

• No one has any idea what's next... the uncertainty of the business climate in America is frightening, frightening to everybody, and it's delaying the recovery.

  

  Steve Wynn
  • Business
  • America
  • Uncertainty

• Meditation is about learning how to rest in uncertainty.

  

  Andy Puddicombe
  • Rest
  • Meditation
  • Uncertainty

• To try is to invite uncertainty. Where confidence goes, success usually follows.

  

  Wayne Gerard Trotman
  • Trying
  • Uncertainty
  • Invites

• If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Certain
  • Uncertainty

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