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Uncertainty is the refuge of hope. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. -- Jacob Bronowski
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. -- William Osler
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. -- William Congreve
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security -- John Allen Paulos
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. -- Erich Fromm
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying. -- J. Paul Getty
Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark. -- Dan Millman
The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection. -- Arianna Huffington
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man. -- Richard P. Feynman
Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty. -- John Huston Finley
The very essence of romance is uncertainty. -- Oscar Wilde
We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty! -- Douglas Adams
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing. -- Robert Burns
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law. -- Jeremy Bentham
The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity. -- Ilya Prigogine
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating. -- Carl von Clausewitz
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions -- Edward Coke
Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn. -- Charlie Sheen
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein
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. -- Vernon A. Walters
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage. -- Eric Hoffer
We need to practice acting in spite of fear, in spite of doubt, in spite of worry, in spite of uncertainty, in spite of inconvenience, in spite of discomfort, and even to practice acting when we're not in the mood to act. -- T. Harv Eker
In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty...in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is the prison of past conditioning. And in our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe. -- Deepak Chopra
Uncertainty is the normal state. -- Tom Stoppard
Uncertainty is inevitable at the frontiers of knowledge. -- Joel Achenbach
Uncertainty is the necessary companion of all explorers. -- Marilyn Ferguson
Uncertainty is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom. -- Deepak Chopra
Uncertainty causes more anxiety than perhaps any other single factor. -- Liz Miller
Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process. -- Harold Geneen
Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process. -- Harold Geneen
Uncertainty is the friend of the buyer of long term values. -- Warren Buffett
Uncertainty is normal in the first few days of a new government. -- Victor Ponta
Uncertainty in a leader is always magnified in the heart of the follower. -- Andy Stanley
Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away. -- Andy Stanley
Uncertainty is a personal matter; it is not the uncertainty but your uncertainty. -- Dennis Lindley
Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well. -- Edith Hamilton
Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death. -- Immanuel Wallerstein
Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership; it underscores the need for leadership. -- Andy Stanley
Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art -- David Bayles
Uncertainty is seen to retard investment independently of considerations of risk or expected return. -- Ben Bernanke
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty. -- Alphonse Karr
Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee. -- David Mallet
Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting. -- Walter Kirn
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance. -- Isaac Asimov
Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end. -- Tim Crouch
Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid. -- Neil Gershenfeld
Uncertainty would be the only certainty there's, and realizing how to stay with insecurity could be the only protection -- John Allen Paulos
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Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation. -- Luis Gutierrez
"Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know." It is "I can't know." "I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain." -- Werner Heisenberg
Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting. -- Oliver Burkeman
Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty. -- Tim Ferriss
Don't let not knowing how it'll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting. -- Bob Goff
When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free." -Vergere -- Matthew Woodring Stover
Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities. -- H. P. Lovecraft
Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it. -- Thomas H. Cook
Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales. -- Bertrand Russell
The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks. (65) -- Stephen Batchelor
Uncertainty about sales impedes business planning and could harm capital formation just as much as uncertainty about inflation can create uncertainty about relative prices and harm business planning. -- Janet Yellen
In the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, from the prison of past conditioning. Uncertainty is the fertile ground of creativity and freedom. -- Deepak Chopra
The future is never clear; you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values. -- Warren Buffett
The Law of Detachment: 1) Allow yourself and others the freedom to be who they are. 2) Do not force solutions - allow solutions to spontaneously emerge. 3) Uncertainty is essential, and you path to freedom. -- Deepak Chopra
Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life; security is an insipid thing; and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase. -- William Congreve
Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty. -- Brian Greene
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. -- Tacitus
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. -- Blaise Pascal
I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity. -- Shekhar Kapur
We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events? -- Rita Mae Brown
Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of things. -- Julian Baggini
Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity. -- Joyce Meyer
The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism. -- John C. Calhoun
Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes. -- Marianne Williamson
Our great struggle in medicine these days is not just with ignorance and uncertainty. It's also with complexity: how much you have to make sure you have in your head and think about. There are a thousand ways things can go wrong. -- Atul Gawande
When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the financiers, the studio and the producers and also, many times, the foreign distributors. So it is a time of tremendous pressure and uncertainty. -- Francis Ford Coppola
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition. -- Bernard Beckett
In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good. -- Pope Francis
The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable. -- Julian Baggini
There will be very few occasions when you are absolutely certain about anything. You will consistently be called upon to make decisions with limited information. That being the case, your goal should not be to eliminate uncertainty. Instead, you must develop the art of being clear in the face of uncertainty. -- Andy Stanley
I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few. -- Brene Brown
When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most revealing material. There is no texture, no shades of gray. In fiction, you can bring the reader on the perilous journey with your characters as they discover that war is more like a wilderness of mirrors, full of danger and uncertainty. -- Leslie Cockburn
Investors don't like uncertainty. -- Kenneth Lay
The only certainty is uncertainty -- Pliny the Elder
Embrace the wisdom of uncertainty. -- Deepak Chopra
Nothing is certain by uncertainty. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Basically, markets don't like uncertainty. -- Nomi Prins
Major organizational changes create uncertainty. -- Irene Rosenfeld
Freedom breeds uncertainty; uncertainty invites chaos. -- R.J. Leahy
Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty. -- Andrew Stanton
Information is the #resolution of uncertainty. -- Claude Shannon
People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty. -- Tim Ferriss
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. -- Bernard Malamud
Unrest and uncertainty are our lot. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life's most precious gift is uncertainty. -- Yoshida Kenko
Don't call it uncertainty-call it wonder. -- Rajneesh
A little uncertainty is good for everyone. -- Henry A. Kissinger
At heart, "uncertainty" and "investing" are synonyms. -- Benjamin Graham
Creativity is an unending exercise in uncertainty. -- Joseph Brodsky
Faith doesn't reduce uncertainty. Faith embraces uncertainty. -- Mark Batterson
Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty. -- Xiaolu Guo
Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty. -- Tacitus
I have no desire to prolong uncertainty. -- Clifton Webb
In a world of increasing uncertainty, expect... -- Gino Norris
Leadership is about uncertainty. Deal with it -- Andy Stanley
Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure. -- Brene Brown
The uncertainty of events disturbs the purest enjoyments. -- Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis
Tolerance for uncertainty is the prerequisite to succeeding. -- David Bayles
We have to learn to live with uncertainty. -- Gerd Gigerenzer
There is no such thing as zero uncertainty. -- Usama Fayyad
We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty. -- Nate Silver
Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism. -- Lois Wyse
Regardless of your faith, you can never escape uncertainty. -- Shannon L. Alder
You know, businesses hate uncertainty more than anything else. -- Carwyn Jones
Meditation is about learning how to rest in uncertainty. -- Andy Puddicombe
We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty -- Douglas Adams
It's only in uncertainty that we're naked and alive. -- Peter Gabriel
Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose. -- Markus Zusak
There cannot be any peace where there is uncertainty. -- Dwight L. Moody

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