Uncertainty Quotes

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.

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.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors.

'Wei' means 'future' and also 'uncertainty,' and the future really is unknown. They have said I cannot leave China because they are still investigating cases against me - for pornography, exchanging foreign currency and bigamy. It is very, very strange. I am not a criminal. They grabbed something from me because they have power.

The substantial uncertainty about the path of asset price movements going forward necessarily reduces the case for altering policy in advance of the move.