The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

When in doubt, don’t.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

It 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.

I’m not a fortune-teller.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn’t really know what all that meant. I didn’t know.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

Life’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.

It 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.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information – the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

The 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.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

People are skeptical of many televangelists, and I’m sensitive to that.

Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

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

Our 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.

Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn’t know exactly what.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

The 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.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

When God sneezed, I didn’t know what to say.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Theology is unnecessary.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

It’s hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.