Quotes about Uncertainty

Certain though I am - and ever more certain - that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

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.