Uncertainties Quotes - Page 2

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

You are all you will ever have for certain.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

Edgar Watson Howe

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

Voltaire

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

Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man by necessity uncertain.

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

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

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

Sir Ian Hamilton

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

W Somerset Maugham

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

Pliny the Elder

I'm often wrong but never in doubt.

Ivy Baker Priest

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.

John E. Kennedy

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.

Johann von Goethe

Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.

Ernestine Ulmer

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable ... we must be content to creep along the ground and can never soar.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

Nothing perhaps is strange once you have accepted life itself the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Jane Bryant Quinn

Our lives are never certain even for an hour.

Ferrant Sanchez Calavera

Throughout this life you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.

Huang Po

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.

Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

We are not certain we are never certain.

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

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

Charles W. Eliot

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

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

When the lie and the truth are two trenchant weapons, they are at the risk of becoming downright uncertainties.

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.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

Auliq-Ice

if you miss what seems so glamorous; if you miss what seems so fantastic to have, don't worry. It may be just a matter of fantasy to have it. Real things are rare but real to have. serendipity and the vicissitudes of life determine what is real, ideal and what is a fantasy. The real future is uncertain to all.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The most difficult step ever is the first step. It comes with doubts, uncertainties, and all sort of fears. If you defy all odd and take it, your confidence will replicate very fast and you'll become a master!

Israelmore Ayivor

It is for your own good to love a dare-devil rather than a holy coward. A dare-devil is a unique devil, battling your fears, your pains, conquering your uncertainties, carrying you his arms, and flying out of the corrosive fire. The coward is a trickster serpent, which vanishes in your time of despair, and appears in time of equanimity.

Michael Bassey Johnson

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

Auliq-Ice