You can’t let the uncertainty of tomorrow interfere with the joy of today.

That’s a very murky position, objected Felix.
“So’s the weather. But this is England, we must learn to live with uncertainty.”

You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope

A great leap in the dark

We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything

The future is not even here yet. Plan for it, but do not waste your time worrying about it.

In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.

You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.

This is the first teaching of the Knights: You will erase everything you had written in the book of your life up until now: restlessness, uncertainty, lies. And in the place of all this you will write the word courage.

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.

Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not gain all our experience at once, but by degrees; so our determinations continue to be assailed incessantly by fresh experience; and the mind, if we may use the expression, must always be under arms.

With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.

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

Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.

War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.

There was great uncertainty about how well we would be able to walk in our cumbersome pressurized suit.

When in doubt, ATTACK!

So our lives glide on: the river ends we don’t know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore.

Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the pattern and takes the pattern to be the real thing

Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better

This is still a dangerous world. It’s a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses.