#uncertainty

If it is widely assumed that the new President cannot move forward simply because of a narrow victory, there can easily develop a sense of unease and uncertainty, adversely affecting every sector of American society, our economy and the perception of other nations. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#affecting #american #american society #assumed #because

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

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee. ↗

— David Mallet

#despair #fears #fell #human #human soul

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#graduate #graduate school #happened #i #school

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#driven #end #ever #sail #sphere

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

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

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#because #change #conservative #crimes #culture