Uncertainty Quotes
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Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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
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What we fear is what we do not know. When something is cloaked by the darkness of uncertainty, it's a mystery. Allowing light to penetrate that darkness makes everything clear.
Aleatha Romig
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It is in the realm of uncertainty, that your passion is found.
Anthony Robbins
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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
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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 cannot be the truth.
Richard Feynman
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
William Butler Yeats
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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
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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
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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
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You know, businesses hate uncertainty more than anything else.
Carwyn Jones
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We are only human, a condition of perpetual uncertainty and failure.
Craig Davidson
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We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew. Or else we brood and too firmly root. Very few can step forward again and again in what amounts to veritable leaps into the void, where there are no ready holds, where little is familiar, where you get constantly stuck in the thickets of your uncertainties and fears.
Chang-Rae Lee
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Leave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring a warlike apparatus at the moment of public danger.
George Washington
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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
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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
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Decreasing economic growth and increasing inequality leads to increased uncertainty.
Nicholas Bloom
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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
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Markets are fundamentally volatile. No way around it. Your problem is not in the math. There is no math to get you out of having to experience uncertainty.
Ed Seykota
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The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.
Ajahn Chah
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Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.
Carre Otis
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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
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If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.
Stephen Covey
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To try is to invite uncertainty. Where confidence goes, success usually follows.
Wayne Gerard Trotman