Uncertainty Quotes

"I find it very interesting to keep people uncertain about what is what and figure it out as they go."

"Nothing is written in stone, as a career is an unpredictable journey."

"Modeling an exponential process necessarily produces a wide range of outcomes."

"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."

Joan Crawford

"No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy's main strength."

Helmuth von Moltke

"War is the realm of uncertainty."

Carl von Clausewitz

“In baseball, you don't know nothing.”

"Nobody knows anything."

William Goldman

"The only certainty is that nothing is certain."

Pliny the Elder

"You are free and that is why you are lost."

"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next."

Ursula K. Le Guin

"Hope is an embrace of the unknown and the unknowable, an alternative to the certainty of both optimists and pessimists."

Rebecca Solnit

“And we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night.”

Matthew Arnold

“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.”

W. B. Yeats

“The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios.”

George Soros

“O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!”

“I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing.”

Richard Feynman

“The only certainty is that nothing is certain.”

Pliny the Elder