#uncertain

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#battles #certain #certainty #how #many

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. ↗

— William Osler

#medicine #probability #science #uncertainty

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#appeal #become #domestic #dubious #gained

Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though we are quite sure of being the same person to-day as we were yesterday, and this is no doubt true in some sense. But the real Self is as hard to arrive at as the real table, and does not seem to have that absolute, convincing certainty that belongs to particular experiences. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#continuity #descartes #existence #existentialism #experience

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#edge #knowledge #uncertainty #unending

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#always #certainty #clarity #fascinating #finds

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties. ↗

— John Dewey

#man #man lives #mystery #surmise #uncertainties

Investors don't like uncertainty. ↗

— Kenneth Lay

#like #uncertainty

The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#like #markets #uncertainty

Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#down #education #first-class #future #generation