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.

You’d think God would come right out and tell us what to do in the Bible, but He doesn’t. He mostly tells stories, and He rarely stops the story to say what the point is....

A lot of the stories you read make it sound like there’s uncertainty. There’s not uncertainty.

As he passed a hand over his eyes, I recalled the he could not have slept more than twenty hours in the last seven days. For the first time since I had known him, Sherlock...

And of course I didn’t know who would marry me now that I’d been where I had been. I didn’t know at all.

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never...

In the grand scheme of life, nobody grows old keeping their soul unblemished.

Somewhere, beyond blackness, some tyrant host swaps breathing for airlessness to test me. I had no concept of myself, no link to the things I knew. It is hard to explain the lack of anything...

Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be this is not important-but the unity of the world, the coherence of all...

A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty

Nobody knows how things will turn out, that’s why they go ahead and play the game…You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it’s hardly ever what you expect.

It is for your own good to love a dare-devil rather than a holy coward. A dare-devil is a unique devil, battling your fears, your pains, conquering your uncertainties, carrying you his arms, and flying...

these are precisely the conditions that killed love, after first blighting its growth: squalor, fear, uncertainty, overfamiliarity.

Facing the fog of uncertainty, the Fed should see the benefits of pausing on September 20,

Risk means ‘shit happens’ or ‘good luck