Uncertainty proverbs

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◆ The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.

- David Levithan99

◆ Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.

- Jodi Picoult99

◆ Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.

- Mark Z. Danielewski99

◆ I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.

- Richard P. Feynman99

◆ As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

- Albert Einstein99

◆ In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

- Marsilio Ficino99

◆ Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck

- Toba Beta99

◆ When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

- Alice Hoffman99

◆ When in doubt, be ridiculous.

- Sherwood Smith99

◆ Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds -- justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

- Anne Rice99

◆ I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

- Richard P. Feynman99

◆ As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution, we suffer from resolution. We don't deserve resolution; we deserve something better than that. We deserve our birthright, which is the middle way, an open state of mind that can relax with paradox and ambiguity.

- Pema Ch?dr?n99

◆ But I have my life, I'm living it. It's twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there's something there.

- Banana Yoshimoto99

◆ Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game...You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it's hardly ever what you expect.

- Gennifer Choldenko99

◆ And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.

- Jack Kerouac99