Uncertainty Quotes

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

When playing Russian roulette the fact that the first shot got off safely is little comfort for the next.

What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.

We go through life like a train rushing through the darkness to an unknown destination.

We are closed in, and the key is turned on our uncertainty.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

The law is an uncertain animal. It has twists and turns that surprise the nonlegal mind.

Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain.

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it’s impossible to count them accurately.

Nothing is less applicable to life than a mathematical argument. A proposition, couched in ciphers, is decidedly either true or false. In all other relations the true and the false are so intermingled, that frequently instinct alone can decide us in the strife of motives, sometimes as powerful on the one side as on the other.[Rien n’est moins applicable à la vie qu’un raisonnement mathématique. Une proposition, en fait de chiffres, est décidément fausse ou vraie; sous tous les autres rapports le vrai se mêle avec le faux d’une telle manière, que souvent l’instinct peut seul nous décider entre des motifs divers, quelquefois aussi puissants d’un côté que de l’autre.]

It was not Death, for I stood up,
And all the Dead, lie down –
It was not Night, for all the Bells
Put out their Tongues, for Noon.