Uncertainty Quotes - page 3

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law. (Jeremy Bentham)
Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. View quote
Mark Twain
The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism. View quote
Jürgen Habermas
With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents. View quote
Carl von Clausewitz
My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it 'information,' but the word was overly used, so I decided to call it 'uncertainty.' When I discussed it with John von Neumann, he had a better idea. Von Neumann told me, 'You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, no one really knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.' View quote
Claude Elwood Shannon
We send our [peacekeepers] off to some disputed zone, full of local intrigue and power blocs and uncertainty and danger, and they are supposed to save lives not with their weapons, but through their competence and their character. And they do it. View quote
Romeo LeBlanc
My religious training told me that in times of personal uncertainty one should seek God's direction through personal prayer and study of the Christian scriptures. View quote
Preston Manning
The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose. View quote
Markus Zusak
Writing should be an adventure, shrouded in mystery and uncertainty, blessed with amazing grace. In theory, of course. View quote
Syd Field
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. View quote
Scott Anderson
Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it. (Thomas H. Cook)
You must eliminate from your thoughts all doubt and uncertainty that you will get well; that you will succeed; that you will gain your point and get what you want. You may have some uncertainty as to methods, but you must have none as to ultimate results. You may not feel certain that you will succeed today, or next week, but you must feel certain that you will succeed sometime. View quote
Wallace D. Wattles
The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty. View quote
David Levithan
I just think it's a time where there is a lot of uncertainty. People are questioning life and the finality of life and what happens in the after life. I think sometimes when religions aren't answering certain questions people search elsewhere. View quote
James Van Praagh
I looked around. As flock leader, everyone was expecting me to make a decision. Jeb's presence here would bring uncertainty, chaos, probably danger. It would perk up my day. View quote
James Patterson
In conditions of uncertainty, humans, like other animals, herd together for protection. View quote
James Surowiecki
Random distributions are not good things, because people are risk-averse, and this risk adversely affects their welfare. If you get too much price uncertainty, all kinds of long-term, mutually beneficial contracts can't be entered into. View quote
Edward C. Prescott
He moved with some uncertainty, as if he didn't know Just what he was there for, or where he ought to go Once he reached for something golden hanging from a tree And his hand come down empty... View quote
Carole King
Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process. View quote
Harold Geneen
The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude. View quote
Peter L. Berger
If and perhaps.... The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action. (John Flanagan)
And, frankly, what happens out of Washington is, it creates a wind in my face, uncertainty over Obamacare, uncertainty over their tax policy, uncertainty over the regulatory policy. View quote
John Kasich
Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts. View quote
Elisabeth Elliot