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Uncertainty Quotes
"If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all."
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"On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity."
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"Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing."
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"Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word."
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"Live in the mysterious. Accepting and being fully at peace with not knowing what's going to happen in the future will allow us to be fully present and more peaceful in the present."
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"If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty."
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"If all the seven stones were laid out before me now, I should shut my eyes and put my hands in my pockets."
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"I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions."
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"There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty."
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"When all are wrong, everyone is right."
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"No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it, you really don't know what's going to happen until you do it."
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"Probably you are right, probably not... who knows?"
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"What if you have all the pieces and the puzzle still doesn't fit?"
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"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true."
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"You think that you know what will happen... but think again!"
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"In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying."
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"There are two schools of thought about the resilience of time. The first is that time is highly volatile, with every small event altering the possible outcome of the earth's future. The other view is that time is rigid, and no matter how hard you try, it will always spring back toward a determined present. Myself, I do not worry about such trivialities. I simply sell ties to anyone who wants to buy one..."
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"I dont know what happens to country."
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"There is no such a rule that patience leads to salvation! Patience can lead to salvation or it can lead to disaster. Every inaction or every action is open to all the possibilities!"
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"The Japanese campaign involves therefore two great uncertainties; first, whether Russia will come in though we think that will be all right; and second, when and how S-1 will resolve itself."
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"I see a brightportionunder the overhead lightthat shades intodarknessand then into darkerdarknessand I can't see beyond that."
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"I don't know what my future will bring me and it's terrifying. To stand before this vast expanse and know that the future could take away what matters most simply because that is the nature of indifferent chaos in the hands of wanton boys."
17
"Nobody knows the aftermath."
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"My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business..."
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"We are not certain we are never certain."
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"Sure, she said, and hugged the laptop bag closer. "What could go wrong?Michael's eyes flashed to meet hers in the rearview mirror.Besides everything, I mean, she said."
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"The scariest thing of all is never knowing what you're suddenly going to believe."
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"Life has no map; it's made of random events, always caused by something beyond your control."
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"When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know."
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"I really don't know what's the best for you and for all out there."
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"I believe the uncertain times are almost upon us, and they are much more uncertain than I imagined."
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"Who can tell when troubles may come?"
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"You could study the connections for years and never work it out-it was all about things coming together,things falling apart,time warp, my mother standing out in front of the museum when time flickered and the light went funny, uncertainties hovering on the edge of a vast brightness. the stray chance that might, or might not, change everything."
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"Embrace relational uncertainty. It's called romance. Embrace spiritual uncertainty. It's called mystery. Embrace occupational uncertainty. It's called destiny. Embrace emotional uncertainty. It's called joy. Embrace intellectual uncertainty. It's called revelation."
10
"It was hard to know how to play the game when the rules kept changing."
10
"She was always looking for guarantees in a world of none."
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"Not all questions can be answered."
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"Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?"
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"There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness."
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"In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty..."
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