Quotes about Uncertainty

And it is here that we are, in some pain and with no guarantees, working out our destiny.

Once intelligent beings achieve technology and the capacity for self-destruction of their species, the selective advantage of intelligence becomes more uncertain.

Often we either don't plan at all, or we get caught up in obsessive planning because we fear the future and its uncertainty.

Never in all history has man had to face such terrible dangers. He is at the point where he is no longer sure of being able to control the situation. The economic, political, and military systems he has established have turned against him and imposed themselves upon him.

The hesitations and doubts that are present at many points in modern theology do not in themselves indicate a deep and final uncertainty... an alienation from the gospel.

The hesitations and doubts that are present at many points (in contemporary theology) do not in themselves indicate a deep final uncertainty, an alienation from the gospel.

God told us to go. He didn't promise that we would come back." Butros

I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete must for that very reason infallibly be faulty.

There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.

Life is governed by chance, not wisdom.

That exasperating quality for which we have no name, which certainly is not accuracy, and which is quite the opposite of judgement, yet which catches the mind as brambles do our clothes.

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.