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Uncertainty Quotes

"The only thing you know for sure about the future is that it will be different from the present"
Aldous Huxley
"The only thing certain about the future is that it will surprise even those who are most prepared for it."
Vinod Khosla
"He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass"
Ray Dalio
"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself."
Søren Kierkegaard
"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"
Miguel de Cervantes
"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."
John Steinbeck
"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."
Herman Melville
"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers"
Erich Fromm
"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties"
Erich Fromm
"The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence."
Carl Sagan
"I was always an unusual girl. My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean"
Lana Del Rey
"The future is inherently unforecastable, the nature of investing is that the decisions you have to make now concern a future that is inherently unknown"
Howard S. Marks
"There's no steady way forward to the future we see so we swerve and sway end up someplace new"
Maggie Smith
"I’m not really a person who’s qualified to talk about retirement. I’m certainly not an expert on it. I’m not even close to having those conversations."
Tom Brady
"Some events, you don't know how they are going to end"
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"People don't know about risk, uncertainty, and surety"
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"The world changes and all that once was strong now proves unsure "
J.R.R. Tolkien
"Even the wise cannot see all ends "
J.R.R. Tolkien
"If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty or back to pain and regret"
Jim Carrey
"I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream."
Vincent Van Gogh