Uncertainties Quotes

Something must be left to chance nothing is sure in a sea fight.

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

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched-they must be felt with the heart.

The demand is for certainty is a sign of weakness.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

It's the moment you think you can't that you realize you can.

Ah what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

We live in an epoch in which the solid ground of our preconceived ideas shakes daily under our certain feet.

I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of "The Look."

If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties it may be too late.

Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

To Death I yield but not to Doubt who slays before!

Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances calculate the risks involved estimate our ability to deal with them and make our plans with confidence.

Not seeing is half-believing.

Gardening is an exercise in optimism.

There is one thing certain namely that we can have nothing certain therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain.

Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

All business proceeds on beliefs or judgment of probabilities and not on certainties.

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

When I was young I was sure of everything in a few years having been mistaken a thousand times I was not half so sure of most things as I was before at present I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed.

He who knows the past well can best explain the present and can tell the probable certainties and uncertainties of the future better

I'm often wrong but never in doubt.

When nothing is sure everything is possible.

If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people I would say to myself "You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation. ... Why should you be frightened?"

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of shore for a very long time.

Yes I have doubted. I have wandered off the path but I always return. It is intuitive an intrinsic built-in sense of direction. I seem always to find my way home.

Every declaration we make is like a seed planted,whose harvest we can't possibly foretell.

In case of doubt decide in favor of what is correct.

Self distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength there is strength and they are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned the hard way that some poems don't rhyme and some stories don't have a clear beginning middle and end. Life is about not knowing having to change taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

There is nothing certain about war except that one side won't win.

We sail within a vast sphere ever drifting in uncertainty driven from end to end.

The person who offends, and the person who has been offended and awaiting for a revenge have one thing in common: the real uncertainties of tomorrow is truly uncertain to both of them.

There is only one thing about which I am certain and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.

Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers.

I know that I do not know, and uncertainty, certainly, is the cruelest of words.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

He who forecasts all perils will never sail the sea.

Doubt is not a pleasant state but certainty is a ridiculous one.

Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

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

The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

You are all you will ever have for certain.

We are not certain we are never certain.

I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.

To be absolutely certain about something one must know everything or nothing about it.

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.

To be ambitious for wealth and yet always expecting to be poor to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for is like trying to reach east by traveling west. There is no philosophy which will help a man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure it will kill your efforts neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so.

Doubt whom you will but never yourself.

The real certainties and uncertainties of tomorrow are hidden to all. We however hope for a tomorrow to do what we have to do tomorrow because we think we shall surely have a tomorrow. Worry therefore not about tomorrow and understand instead that once there shall be a tomorrow, there shall be a good tomorrow. If there shall be a good tomorrow, then there shall be a good tomorrow for you. Stay positive!

Doubt breeds doubt.

I am a woman who understands the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin still lie beyond me.

uncertainty is a path without an end. He who wants to completely do away with uncertainties before starting a purposeful journey of life shall always end a purposeful journey on the path of uncertainties without beginning any purposeful journey of life