#certainty

Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck ↗

— Toba Beta

#life #luck #risk #uncertainty #life

Information is the resolution of uncertainty. ↗

— Claude Shannon

#resolution #uncertainty

Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world. ↗

— Naomi Weisstein

#certainty #describing #found #infallibility #nature

My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If I really knew this language, there would surely be in my head, as there is in Webster's or the Dictionary of American Slang, that unreducible verb designed to tell a person like me what to do next. ↗

— Grace Paley

#morality #uncertainty #change

The road of 'God alone' struck me with unsettling fear. So I lingered in a kind of limbo. Unable to go back, unable to go on. Uncertain. Tentative. How strange that we tend to stand ankle-deep in the spiritual life even though the grounding depth of intimacy with God is the most nourishing experience of our lives and affirms our very being! ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#experience

To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#allow #cause #definitely #earnings #erode

It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#certainty #even #far #foresee #than

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck. ↗

— Elizabeth Bibesco

#call #certainty #hope #luck #often

If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#just #lot #see #teenager #uncertainty

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#danger #essence #terrorism #uncertainty