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Uncertainty Quotes

"Statesmen are not called upon only to settle easy questions. These often settle themselves. It is where the balance quivers, and the proportions are veiled in mist, that the opportunity for world-saving decisions presents itself."

"Tomorrow is promised to no one"

"The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind"

"The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable"

"To love someone fiercely, to believe in something with your whole heart, to celebrate a fleeting moment in time, to fully engage in a life that doesn’t come with guarantees"

"The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history"

"A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes."

"If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end"

"People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty."

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know."

"I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark."

"We can only see a short distance ahead"

"What about us? What about all the times you said you had the answers?"

"You don't know what the future holds. You might be on a path today, but the path might change tomorrow."

"Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place"

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