Uncertainty Quotes - Page 22

• And though behind you lies a road of dust and heat and discouragement, and before you the challenge and uncertainty of untried paths, in this brief hour you are master of all highways, and the universe nestles in your soul.

  Max Ehrmann

  Lying, Dust, Challenges

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• As I see our world, I have never seen greater confusion, greater loss of meaning, greater uncertainty, and greater fear of what looms in front of us. Politics has gotten out of control everywhere. Nobody sees a mascot or a leader, and everyone wants to know what really lies ahead here.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Lying, Loss, Our World

  Source: rzim.org

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• You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing interest ceases also.... But a Catholic by mystery means an incomprehensible certainty: without certainty, without formulation there is no interest;... the clearer the formulation the greater the interest.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Mean, Interesting, Catholic

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1966). “A Hopkins reader: selections”

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• Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Religion, Useless

  Baruch Spinoza (2017). “A Theologico-Political Treatise”, Jovian Press

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• At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.

  Mason Cooley

  Giving, Aging, Vistas

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• Other people's belief changes you. We all have insecurity, and uncertainty, and to have that glow cast over you by somebody that you respect, makes a gigantic difference.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Differences, People, Over You

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Sound, Philosopher, Affair

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• We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to any pointand to fasten to it, it wavers and leaves us; and if we follow it, it eludes our grasp, slips past us, and vanishes for ever. Nothing stays for us.

  Blaise Pascal

  Knowledge, Past, Thinking

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• It is up to my spirit to find the truth. But how? Grave uncertainty, each time the spirit feels beyond its own comprehension; whenit, the explorer, is altogether to obscure land that it must search and where all its baggage is of no use. To search? That is not all: to create.

  Marcel Proust

  Creativity, Knowledge, Land

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• Robin [Williams] was a world treasure. As we mourn his tragic death, we must remember him for the great waves of laughter that he was able to illicit from us, how his humor and insights - though they came from a place of pain and uncertainty - connected us and reminded us of how flawed and fragile...how human we are. How we are capable of moments of inspired transcendence and others of unspeakable despair.

  Glenn Close

  Leadership, Wisdom, Pain

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• That food nourishes, sleep refreshes, and fire warms us; that to sow in the seed-time is the way to reap in the harvest, and, in general, that to obtain such or such ends, such or such means are conducive, all this we know, not by discovering any necessary connexion between our ideas, but only by the observation of the settled laws of nature, without which we should be all in uncertainty and confusion, and a grown man no more know how to manage himself in the affairs of life than an infant just born.

  George Berkeley

  Mean, Sleep, Men

  George Berkeley (2013). “Principles of Human Knowledge”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

  Lawrence Block

  Maturity, Men, Years

  Lawrence Block (2010). “Everybody Dies”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• We live here and now. Everything before and in other places is past. Mostly forgotten. What could, what should be done with all the time that lies ahead of us, open and unshaped, feather-light in its freedom and lead-heavy in its uncertainty? Is it a wish? Dream-like and nostalgic, to stand once again at that point in life and be able to take a completely different direction than the one that has made us who we are?

  Pascal Mercier

  Dream, Lying, Past

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• Courage means feeling all those hard human emotions - all that uncertainty and anxiety - and getting the job done anyway.

  Douglas Conant

  Jobs, Mean, Anxiety

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• Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Illusion, Enough, Certainty

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• I think you have an enormous amount of fear and uncertainty in this country. And it`s not just from San Bernardino or from Paris.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Thinking, Paris

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• We must never let fear... divert us from our faith and faithful living. Every person in every era has had to walk by faith into what has always been some uncertainty. This is the plan. Just be faithful. God is in charge. He knows your name and He knows your need.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Names, Faithful, Needs

  "This, the Greatest of All Dispensations". Fireside address, www.lds.org. July 2007.

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• Don't let uncertainty talk you into pursuing a backup plan instead of your purpose.

  Bob Goff

  Purpose, Backup, Plans

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Apr 28, 2015

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• A hero is also someone who, in their day to day interactions with the world, despite all the pain, uncertainty and doubt that can plague us, is resiliently and unashamedly themselves. If you can wake up every day and be emotionally open and honest regardless of what you get back from the world then you can be the hero of your own story. Each and every person who can say that despite life’s various buffetings that they are proud to be the person they are is a hero.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Pain, Hero, Doubt

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• Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it.

  Robert Henri

  Artist, Messages, Spirit

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Career is the stringing together of opportunities and jobs. Mix in public opinion and past regrets. Add a dash of future panic and a whole lot of financial uncertainty. Career is something that fools you into thinking you are in control and then takes pleasure in reminding you that you aren't. Career is the thing that will not fill you up and will never make you truly whole.

  Amy Poehler

  Jobs, Regret, Past

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.169, Pan Macmillan

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• What the Fed is really trying to say is that it doesn't know what it is going to do next. And if the markets abhor anything, it is uncertainty. Expect bond and stock market volatility to increase from here until the inflation outlook solidifies.

  Scott Anderson

  Trying, Next, Volatility

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• It brings spiritual warfare and suffering for the priest as he identifies with those who suffer, and shares the frustrations, anger, and incomprehensibility of that suffering in what it does to those who suffer. The priest shares in these struggles of his suffering people, the uncertainties it brings, the sense of divine abandonment it induces, and the loneliness caused.

  Arthur Middleton

  Spiritual, Loneliness, Struggle

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• It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works.

  Edmond Jabes

  Creativity, Creative, Certainty

  Edmond Jabès (1977). “The Book of Questions: The Book of Yukel, Return to the Book”, Wesleyan

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• Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Roots, Religion, Soil

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