Quotes with uncertainty

  • Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.
  • Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
  • Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

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  • Erich Fromm The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant One thing you can rely on is that there will always be uncertainty.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Douglas Adams We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Ezra Pound All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Marquis de Sade Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Mark Twain Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Eric Hoffer Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Barbara Jordan For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Samuel Johnson He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Carole King 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...
    Tapestry (1971)
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Bernard Beckett Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.
    Bernard Beckett
    New Zealand writer (1967 - )
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  • Hubert Humphrey I think the worst thing this nation could do for humanity would be to leave any uncertainty as to our will, our purpose and our capacity to carry out our purpose.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Stephen R. Covey If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Blaise Pascal 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!
    Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Sir William Osler Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Alan Alda Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Arianna Huffington 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
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Seneca The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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