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13 Quotes for 'Uncertainty' in the Database.
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Uncertainty Quotes
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Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?
[Lat., Quis scit, an adjiciant hodiernae crastina summae
Tempora di superi?]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Carmina (IV, 7, 17)
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All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall
with a sudden crash.
[Lat., Omnia sunt hominum tenui pendentia filo:
Et subito casu, quae valuere, ruunt.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Epistoloe Ex Ponto (IV, 3, 35)
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My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man that function
Is smothered in surmise and nothing is
But what is not.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at I, iii)
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I ever held worse that all certitude,
To know not what the worst ahead might be.
Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne
Source: Marino Faliero (act V)
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When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse
directs it to either side.
[Lat., Dum in dubio est animus, paulo momento huc illuc
impellitur.]
Author: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
Source: Andria (I, 5, 32)
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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.
Author: William Congreve
Source: None
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Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
Author: John Finley
Source: None
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Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
Author: R. I. Fitzhenry
Source: None
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Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
Author: Jacob Bronowski
Source: None
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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
Author: Djuna Barnes
Source: None
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We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.
Author: Douglas Adams
Source: None
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To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
Author: Chinese Proverb
Source: None
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: None
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