Uncertainty Quotes

Maturity means being able to tolerate, on all sorts of planes, uncertainty and not knowing.

~ Hazel Johns

My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty.

~ Terry Tempest Williams

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

~ Alan Lightman

Trust the wait. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of becoming. When nothing is certain, anything is possible

~ Mandy Hale

They were close enough that he could feel the hurried beat of her heart. He could feel Charlotte's indecision in every word she didn't say and every move she didn't make. She was tense with uncertainty, quivering with irresolution. She might not be leaning into him, but she wasn't pulling away, either.

~ Lauren Willig

Chance is commonly viewed as a self-correcting process in which a deviation in one direction induces a deviation in the opposite direction to restore the equilibrium. In fact, deviations are not corrected as a chance process unfolds, they are merely diluted.

~ Amos Tversky

We're all stumbling in the dark, and that makes for some pretty interesting collisions.

~ Marty Rubin

When the big things in our life start changing, we rely more heavily on small certainties to make us feel secure.

~ Kate Kerrigan

There was no denying the fact that the death of sugarcane was sounding the knell for something else in the country. What can we call it?

~ Maryse Condé

There's a thin line between an uncertain 'Yes' and a certain 'No' known as 'lame indecisiveness'.

~ Aniruddha Sastikar

No matter what there always seems to be something clouding my existence, nothing is ever clear.

~ Emilyann Girdner

Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we shallBreathe out the very Breath we now breathe in!

~ Omar Khayyám

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

~ Nate Silver

So what did you do when death came to your house? We continued in the same way as before. What is that, a failure of the imagination? Are you in denial? This is not wholly true; we continue in the same way as before but in parenthesis. My thinking has switched its grammar. The present continuous is its single operational tense. Uncertainty is our present and our future.

~ Marion Coutts

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

~ Stephen Covey

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

~ Brené Brown

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

~ Brené Brown

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

~ Ted Nelson

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

~ Carl Von Clausewitz

If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.

~ Jamie Lee Curtis

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

~ Blaise Pascal

Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.

~ Tim Crouch

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

~ Jeremy Bentham

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

~ Jacob Bronowski

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

~ William Congreve

Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.

~ Andy Stanley

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

~ José Saramago

I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won't have that person around me.

~ Leona Lewis

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

~ Arianna Huffington

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

~ Joyce Meyer

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.

~ Barbara Jordan

To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.

~ Karen Thompson Walker