A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn’t know.

It’s okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy.

We need leaders who can meet and adapt to new challenges, build strategic partnerships, build and sustain human capital organizations, and have the courage to act and react to the challenges

We go into next week with continued uncertainty and wall-to-wall worries. The month of August was full of negative surprises, and September seems to be headed in that direction.

A thick rivulet of lost blood reflects a city that will mourn but never die.

Satisfaction is a powerful sleep aid, and after the day I had yesterday, how could I not be content? Uncertainty has returned to my life, and I welcome the possibilities.

For others, as for ourselves, we must trust him. If we could thoroughly understand anything, that would be enough to prove it undivine; and that which is but one step beyond our understanding must be...

My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If I really knew this language, there would surely be in...

So what did you do when death came to your house? We continued in the same way as before. What is that, a failure of the imagination? Are you in denial? This is not wholly...

The future is certain. It is just not known.

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that,...

man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in anevil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are thesons of men snared in an evil time,

I hope there isn’t. I’m for uncertainty. As soon as you think you know, you’re done for. You don’t listen and you can’t hear. If you’re certain of anything, you shut the door on the...

Right now, in this dusty anti-paradise, I have absolutely no hand in the future at all.

It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.

The death of God left the angels in a strange position.

When we advance more confident claims and they fail to come to fruition, this constitutes much more powerful evidence against our hypothesis. We can’t really blame anyone for losing faith when this occurs

How are you supposed to find what you’re looking for if you’re not even convinced it’s out there?

Market participants are generally wary of the uncertainty over the rate increase outlook, and are selling to hedge against such worries.

You cannot know” he said simply. “Very little is certain in this life, my lady.

Faith, is the road that goes straight past the gravel, and cloud-mesh dirt into a mirage, where still you believe to go straight, and when you finally catch up with it, it ends at a...

The core predicament of medicine – the thing that makes being a patient so wrenching, being a doctor so difficult, and being a part of society that pays the bills they run up so vexing...

Of course, I don’t know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of intellectual disciplines, it’s probably more accurate to say that I don’t know anything.

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

It was the promise of maybe, maybe one day.

The problem with living forever, of course, is you have to live forever before you know you’re immortal…or invincible. Even the gods, in this way, must always remain uncertain. Time trumps immortality just as uncertainty...

The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.

Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.

I told Ersken, “Lately it’s been like living on the knife’s edge, never knowing which side I’ll fall off on”Ersken clapped me on the shoulder as we stepped into the street. “Cheer up, Beka. Maybe...

There is stability in walking an uncertain path, because you never allow yourself to be misled by what you think you know.

Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere.

We see a great uncertainty in how effective this screening process is.

Here I stand on the brink of war again, a citizen of no place, no time, no country but my own . . . and that a land lapped by no sea but blood, bordered...

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don’t sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it...

A plague rides on the air here. The smell of rot! This is Doal’s realm. Can’t you feel it? The keep is doomed, don’t you see? No, I will not pass through this gate. There...

One thing, however, is certain in life. No one survives it.

Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in terms the non-expert could understand. He was brilliant at cultivating a sense of...

Most argument, and in fact most conflict, has nothing to do with the present. It’s always about the past or the future. People can’t agree on the details of what has happened or is going...

Overlying everything, you’ve got the election and there’s a lot of uncertainty.

I have always hated lies; my own and everyone else’s.

History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

Allowing people to contribute in your life is a leap of faith. And that comes gradually with self actualization and overcoming fears of uncertainty.

…the ratings agencies’ problem was in being unable or uninterested in appreciating the distinction between risk and uncertainty.

Embrace relational uncertainty. It’s called romance. Embrace spiritual uncertainty. It’s called mystery. Embrace occupational uncertainty. It’s called destiny. Embrace emotional uncertainty. It’s called joy. Embrace intellectual uncertainty. It’s called revelation.

There’s still a lot of uncertainty.

Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear enough. Uncertainty, the ultimate evil that modern law seeks to eradicate, generally fosters...

Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hopelessness is our cross.

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

The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.

Heralds don’t sing about men who lived in orthodoxy or played it safe, they sing about men who lived an uncertain future and took enough risks to make your head spin.