Quotes about Uncertainty

She said: "My Uncle Malky used to say that love was a bad bargain because you get no guarantees.

We are one life reaching out into a dark future.

The concept of progress act as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

Ahh, but the dice cannot read their own spots.

In that moment, his whole life was a limb shaken by the departure of a bird … and the bird was chance.

Technology, in common with many other activities, tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. Capital investment follows this rule, since people generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice. —ASSESSMENT OF IX, BENE GESSERIT ARCHIVES

The history of humanity has, to a large extent, been one of groping blindly in the dark, fearing for the future and yet resisting the guiding hand of inspired men who would willingly lead mankind in the path of safety.

I think C. S. Lewis said it best: "We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."

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.

We cannot always cry at the right time and who is to say which time is right?

Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.

My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...