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Uncertain Quotes

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One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.
Sigmund Freud

One must learn to sacrifice fleeting, unpredictable and damaging gratification for postponed, withheld, but dependable satisfaction.
Authors on Uncertain Quotes: Banana Yoshimoto Blaise Pascal Richard P. Feynman Sara Coleridge Clifford Geertz Jim Valvano Eugene Wigner Hans Kung Robert Greene Woody Allen Mohsin Hamid Al Purdy Noam Chomsky Plautus Seneca the Younger Aldrich Ames Mary McCarthy David Levithan George Bernard Shaw Thomas Paine Bertrand Russell Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Carl Jung Garrett Hardin Rupert Sheldrake T. E. Brown Michael Crichton Charles Dickens Freeman Dyson Pliny the Elder A. J. P. Taylor Shary Boyle Ann Brashares
2.
Problems are often stated in vague terms... because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are.
John von Neumann

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The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing.
T. E. Brown

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Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.
Jim Valvano

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The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
Jim Morrison

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For as long as one has no further point of reference, apart from the position of the maximum, the wavelength thus remains uncertain by an integral factor.
Max von Laue

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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
Pliny the Elder

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If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
Ajahn Chah

9.
It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.
Charles Sanders Peirce

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Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.
Albert Einstein

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But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.
Banana Yoshimoto

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I'm still uncertain about the language declaration syntax.
Dennis Ritchie

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Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise.
Gustavo Gutiérrez

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I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain
Clifford Geertz

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It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
Hans Kung

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All things are so very uncertain, and that's exactly what makes me feel reassured.
Tove Jansson

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To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
Socrates

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It is not certain that everything is uncertain.
Blaise Pascal

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There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness
Fernando Pessoa

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Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?
Pema Chodron

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The only thing we can really count on in this uncertain world is human unreliability itself.
Garrett Hardin

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In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being unsure.
Christopher Hitchens

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There are few truths in an uncertain world, but here's one; this aint Kentucky!
Verne Lundquist

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We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.
Sean Lennon

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If we are to remain mission focused, as we must be if we are to be relevant in an uncertain age, the abandoning those things that do not further the mission is a leadership imperative.
Frances Hesselbein

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I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.
Franz Kafka

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Life is unresolved, confusing, bewildering, puzzling, ambiguous. You don't really know what's going to happen. The future is uncertain for everybody.
Woody Allen

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When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.
Mohsin Hamid

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What is uncertain is how much further the bubble can expand, and what might pop it.
David Einhorn

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Uncertain justice by a verdict is much better than certain injustice.
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

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Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself.
Laurell K. Hamilton

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The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.
Carl Jung

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The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.
Elia Kazan

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Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
Carl von Clausewitz

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The experience of life teaches us that being like someone in love is more real, because everything is uncertain.
Abbas Kiarostami

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Science is uncertain.
Richard P. Feynman

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We see and understand more about our behaviors. We come aware. And aware. And aware. . . Often, we feel uncertain about what to do with all this awareness.
Melody Beattie

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A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting
Jurgen Habermas

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Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.
Michel de Montaigne

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The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.
Charles Dudley Warner

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I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.
Daniel Ek

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Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.
Rupert Sheldrake

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Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires.
Brian Herbert

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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
Livy

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We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.
Warren Buffett

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We live in uncertain times when it comes to the future of life on Earth.
Jeff Corwin

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At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.
Al Purdy

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Insight, untested and unsupported, is an uncertain guarantee of the truth.
Bertrand Russell

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…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.
Charles Dickens

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Maybe the science is uncertain, maybe we don't have to worry about it. Climate change is the worst, but there's others.
Noam Chomsky