A Quote by Pliny the Elder

The only certainty is uncertainty

Pliny the Elder

Quote Topics

Certainty Only Uncertainty

Quote Author

Pliny the Elder
Roman - Author
23 - 79

Certainty creates strength. Certainty gives one something upon which to learn. Uncertainty creates weakness. Uncertainty makes one tentative if not fearful, and tentative steps, even when in the right direction, may not overcome significant obstacles.

John M Barry

First, the only certainty is that there is no certainty. Second, every decision, as a consequence, is a matter of weighing probabilities. Third, despite uncertainty we must decide and we must act. And lastly, we need to judge decisions not only on the results, but on how they were made.

Robert Rubin

Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security

John Allen Paulos

Uncertainty would be the only certainty there's, and realizing how to stay with insecurity could be the only protection

John Allen Paulos

In an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty, the one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge.

Ikujiro Nonaka

You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing interest ceases also.... But a Catholic by mystery means an incomprehensible certainty: without certainty, without formulation there is no interest;... the clearer the formulation the greater the interest.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

Pope Francis

Every patient reacts a little differently, both biologically and psychologically. The only constant in cancer is inconstancy; the only certainty is a future of uncertainty, a truism for all of modern life but one made vivid by life-threatening illness.

Jonathan Alter

About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box.

Arnold Gingrich

My friends call me a 'pace-setter.' Sometimes I am impatient, I think, but you must be fast and flexible in business because uncertainty is the only certainty in life.

Guler Sabanci

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty. All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain, transient. But there is a Supreme Being hidden therein as a Certainty, and one would be blessed if one could catch a glimpse of that Certainty and hitch one's waggon to it. The quest for that Truth is the summum bonum of life.