Uncertain
Not certain; not having certain knowledge; not assured in mind; distrustful.
Irresolute; inconsonant; variable; untrustworthy; as, an uncertain person; an uncertain breeze.
Questionable; equivocal; indefinite; problematical.
Not sure; liable to fall or err; fallible.
To make uncertain.
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Uncertain Quotations
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winston Churchill
Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
Benjamin Franklin
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Niccolo Machiavelli
You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.
Warren Buffett
We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.
Warren Buffett
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
James Russell Lowell
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Walt Whitman
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
Margaret Mead
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
Frank Herbert
Uncertain Translations
uncertain in French is incertain
uncertain in German is entketten, unsicher
uncertain in Italian is incerto, malsicuro
uncertain in Latin is hesito (haesito), incertus
uncertain in Spanish is erratil, incierto
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