155 quotes found
“All uncertainly is fruitful... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand.”
“I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.”
“When we are not sure we are alive.”
“Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.”
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next.”
“it’s that sense of powerlessness that destroyed my soul. i cannot be as good as i would like to be.nor as bad as i think i need to be.i think you have the same doubts that your goodness was not rew...”
“Ann: How does God’s character fit into things that seem totally against his character?”
“I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success.”
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts.”
“The word maybe was beginning to annoy me, because the only thing that was fixed was that maybe would be with me forever.”
“Nothing perhaps is strange once you have accepted life itself the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.”
“Our lives are never certain even for an hour.”
“Throughout this life you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.”
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned the hard way that some poems don't rhyme and some stories don't have a clear beginning middle and end. Life is about not knowing having to change taking ...”
“Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing.”
“We are not certain we are never certain.”
“All business proceeds on beliefs or judgment of probabilities and not on certainties.”
“The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides never decides.”
“Ah what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!”
“When I was young I was sure of everything in a few years having been mistaken a thousand times I was not half so sure of most things as I was before at present I am hardly sure of anything but what...”
