Uncertainty Quotes

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

History, Fear, Ignorance

We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.
Jonathan Sacks

Best, Hope, Courage

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.
Arlen Specter

Work, Light, Leave

We have some worse scenarios for which we need to prepare as companies. For the moment, we're planning for the worst, and the worst is now, and the car market is down more than 15 percent in France. There is so much uncertainty.
Carlos Ghosn

Car, Down, Moment

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
Robert Burns

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Life, Makes, Knowing

In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.
Jonathan Sacks

Love, Trust, Future

A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.
Jonathan Sacks

Government, Future, Perfect

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
Nate Silver

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
Alphonse Karr

Reality, Regret, Moment

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
George Soros

Money, Made, State

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
Jorge Luis Borges

State, Known, Unknown

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
Jacob Bronowski

Knowledge, Adventure, Edge

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
Harold S. Geneen

Process, Taking, Charge

One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.
Fareed Zakaria

Great, Business, Revolution

I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won't have that person around me.
Leona Lewis

Trust, Single, Person

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.
John Boehner

Business, Country, Two

Listen, I think what's best for the economy and to create jobs is to extend all of the current tax rates - for all Americans. It - it begins to reduce the uncertainty. And for small businesspeople, they can look up and begin to plan.
John Boehner

Best, Small, Plan

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

Tell, Worry, Wonder

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.
Carre Otis

Life, Change, Experience

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

Confusion, Old, Between

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

Change, Fear, Society

Well, you know, any defense force worth its salt has to be able to deal with uncertainty, has to be able to deal with events that we may not have planned for.
Leon Panetta

May, Able, Worth

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
Edward Coke

Mother, Quiet, Cause

As long as there's political uncertainty around the energy space, stock prices will come down.
T. Boone Pickens

Long, Political, Down

The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.
Peter Mandelson

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

Watch, Teenager

Uncertainty's not good for anybody.
Roger Goodell

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.
Mark Burnett

Him, Decisions, Guy

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

Terrorism, Danger, Essence

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