#certainty

But just as we can all agree on what is red, even if we will never know if we each see it in the same way, so we can all agree - can’t we? - that no matter how confident we may appear to others, inside we are all sobbing, scared and uncertain for much of the time. Or perhaps it’s just me. Oh God, perhaps it really is just me. Actually it doesn’t really matter, when you come to think of it. If it is just me, then you are reading the story of some weird freak. You are free to treat this book like science fiction, fantasy or exotic travel literature. Are there really men like Stephen Fry on this planet? Goodness, how alien some people are. And if I am not alone, then neither are you, and hand in hand we can marvel together at the strangeness of the human condition. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#life #uncertainty #inspirational

When there's uncertainty they always think there's another shoe to fall. There is no other shoe to fall. ↗

— Kenneth Lay

#another #fall #other #shoe #think

Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness. ↗

— Godfrey Reggio

#aggression #certainty #comes #form #gone

The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#acquire #always #cloud #gun #here

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

#constantly #flux #made #markets #money

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind. ↗

— May Sarton

#comes #mind #minute #opposite #utters

When in doubt, be ridiculous. ↗

— Sherwood Smith

#decision #fast-thinking #uncertainty #beauty

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference. ↗

— Nate Silver

#knowledge #prediction #self-knowledge #uncertainty #wisdom

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#taxes #death

He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#decisions #doubts #death