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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."


"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."


"On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity."


"There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty."


"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."


"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!"


"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."


"Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing."


"You think that you know what will happen... but think again!"


"I really don't know what's the best for you and for all out there."


"Probably you are right, probably not... who knows?"


"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."


"In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying."


"Who can tell when troubles may come?"


"I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions."


"If all the seven stones were laid out before me now, I should shut my eyes and put my hands in my pockets."


"If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty."
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