Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
Friedrich NietzscheWashington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.
Noam ChomskyWhat can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
Christopher HitchensA good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
Nelson MandelaOur problem right now is that we’re so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there’s a little utopia.
Margaret AtwoodI don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.
David BowieRisk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
Warren BuffettWe are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.
Clint EastwoodI’m a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there’s a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I’m just as confused as most people. I don’t have the answers for anything.
Kurt CobainAs far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert EinsteinThere’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.
Jordan PetersonI would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand RussellI never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
William Makepeace ThackerayYou never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
Noam ChomskySuccess isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.
Kevin HartThough men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.
Robert GreeneIt is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
Richard P. FeynmanAny man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.
Kurt VonnegutLife is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.
Muhammad AliWhen you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWe always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.
Warren BuffettI still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.
Christopher HitchensA question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Albert EinsteinSome people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.
Jim MattisI think if you make a good movie, people walk away arguing.
Angelina JolieIf you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
Elbert HubbardOften, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!
Ludwig van BeethovenThe fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThe future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
Tennessee WilliamsIt’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.
George H. W. BushThe uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.
Brene BrownThe first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.
Sunil ChhetriTo be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
Henry KissingerThere is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
Tennessee WilliamsA bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
Jerry SeinfeldYou are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
Haruki MurakamiIt is not scientifically possible to accurately predict the outcome of an action. To suggest otherwise runs contrary to historical experience and the nature of war.
Jim MattisLife’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.
Amy WinehouseWe know what we are, but know not what we may be.
William ShakespeareIronically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.
Brene BrownGod not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.
Stephen HawkingIf there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.
Stephen CoveyA wet spot on the floor kind of put a scare in myself, so you never know inside those lines what might happen.
Stephen CurryThe penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
H. L. MenckenTo some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.
David ByrneIf we have an atom that is in an excited state and so is going to emit a photon, we cannot say when it will emit the photon. It has a certain amplitude to emit the photon at any time, and we can predict only a probability for emission; we cannot predict the future exactly.
Richard P. FeynmanA statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.
AristotleIf one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaAlthough our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
Carl von ClausewitzWhat prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
James MadisonIt’s not easy being young. It’s hard to know what to do.
Dolly PartonNot knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
Emily DickinsonFaith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
Henry David ThoreauI don’t know what ‚normal‘ means, anyway.
Karl LagerfeldIn this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.
Pope FrancisFear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Dale CarnegieMy comedy is different every time I do it. I don’t know what the hell I’m doing.
Adam SandlerI always wonder when it was that I was embraced.
Joe BidenThe probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
Noam ChomskyIf the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
Thomas Jefferson