Quotes about Uncertainty

The difficult bosses - the ones that have been hard for me to work for - have been the ones where I never knew what success meant.

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

Each is liable to panic, which is, exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination.

If a thousand things that made sense to me had turned out wrong, perhaps this thing that didn't make sense would turn out right.

We are at a time when postmodernism defies certainty, truth, and meaning; when spiritualism dabbles in quantum theory; and when randomness has become the order of the day. Isn't it ironic that at the same time, the world is on the edge of financial bankruptcy because we have conducted our financial affairs in a random fashion, as if there are no absolutes?

We see through a glass darkly because all we want is to be comfortable.

I wouldn't want to live without strong misgivings.

The frog is almost five hundred million years old. Could you really say with much certainty that America, with all its strength and prosperity, with its fighting man that is second to none, and with its standard of living that is highest in the world, will last as long as...the frog?

We have no ideas, and they're pretty firm.

That men would die was a matter of necessity; which men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance.

You have a morbid aversion to dying. You probably resent the fact that you're at war and might get your head blown off any second.