Definition of Uncertainty
Uncertainty
The quality or state of being uncertain.
That which is uncertain; something unknown.
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Uncertainty Quotations
Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.
Charlie Sheen
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm
If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
Blaise Pascal
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
Blaise Pascal
I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
Jorge Luis Borges
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
Richard P. Feynman
Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.
Richard P. Feynman
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
William Congreve
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
William Congreve
Uncertainty Translations
uncertainty in French is incertitude
uncertainty in Italian is incertezza
uncertainty in Spanish is incertidumbre
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