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Uncertainty Quotes


"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."


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


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


"If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all."


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


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