Uncertainty Quotes

The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

Well, as a former small businessperson - I understand what's going on, I think in the business community. And businesspeople around the country are looking at all the spending and all the debt. They're looking at all the policies coming out of this Congress and this administration the last two years, and they - it's created all this uncertainty.

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

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

This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

In this era of uncertainty and conflict, the United States - blessed with the world's strongest military, most ingenious economy, and most tolerant society - remains a model and leader to the world.

I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.

Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

Information is the resolution of uncertainty.

When there's uncertainty they always think there's another shoe to fall. There is no other shoe to fall.

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

I look at decisions like - it's like an Indiana Jones movie. The guy comes to a rope ladder, and he's being chased. There's uncertainty on the other side, but he knows when he gets to the other side, he's going to take his machete and cut the rope ladder behind him. He has no retreat.

The Supreme Court has a very light backlog. They leave a lot of splits among the circuits, a lot of uncertainty. And I think they ought to work a lot harder.

Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

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

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

I used to be scared of uncertainty; now I get a high out of it.

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

Investors don't like uncertainty.

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

There is so much uncertainty out there, and the government in Washington doesn't seem to get it. What's needed is a new business environment.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.