Quotes about Uncertainty

The unbearableness of the future is easier to face than that of the present if only because human foresight is much more destructive than anything that the future can bring about.

Past and future were out of her hands. One was finished and couldn't be undone. The other was beyond imagining.

Perhaps he had already sensed God's leading, and been troubled and unsure why.

There's a Bene Gesserit saying," she said. "You have sayings for everything!" he protested. "You'll like this one," she said. "It goes: 'Do not count a human dead until you've seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake.

Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.

Paul felt that he had been infected with terrible purpose. He did not know yet what the terrible purpose was.

Technology, in common with many other activities, tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. Capital investment follows this rule, since people generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.

She said: "My Uncle Malky used to say that love was a bad bargain because you get no guarantees.

We are one life reaching out into a dark future.

The concept of progress act as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

Ahh, but the dice cannot read their own spots.

In that moment, his whole life was a limb shaken by the departure of a bird … and the bird was chance.