Top 1200 Uncertainty And Doubt Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope.

I think despair and cynicism are two different things. On the flip side of hope is despair. Belief and doubt are the same thing, in that to believe something you have to actively doubt the opposite. And from my perspective, that's the deep end. You're dealing with the unknown; you're dealing with mystery.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.

Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.

Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.

Our greatest challenge today is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and by doubt I mean openness to the ongoing changeability, mystery, and fallibility of the conviction.

In Zen Buddhism, the greater your doubt, the greater will be your enlightenment. That is why doubt can be a good thing. If you are too sure, if you always have conviction, then you may be caught in your wrong perception for a long time.

Wins and championships - I want it all. I want there to be no doubt who I am. I want there to be no doubt that I'm a winner.

It is the glorious uncertainty of golf that makes it the game it is.

If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

Most men would love to be stared at by women. Don't doubt me on this. And my guess is that most women are actually intrigued by it and have developed techniques and skills for dealing with it. Don't doubt me.

The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty

The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.

Here lies the basic flaw of all doubt. It can never really be satisfied. No evidence is ever fully, finally enough. Doubt wants always to consume, never to consummate. It clamors endlessly for an answer and so drowns out any answer that might be given it.

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

Barbra Streisand is without a doubt one of the most honest people I have ever known. There is no doubt in my mind that she will not be doing any more concerts. Of course, she still will be making records and starring and directing in movies

Poker is all about comfort with uncertainty, after all.

The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.

At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.

Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us.

The main battle is to make people realise that doubt is important. Doubt is good. The 'don't know' answer sometimes is the box you should tick, and it's about not being scared about that fact. Even the greatest minds don't know everything.

It is the job of leaders to eliminate uncertainty.

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.

Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very deep and strong struggle: permit us to question - to doubt - to not be sure. I think that it is important that we do not forget this struggle and thus perhaps lose what we have gained.

For every gain in deep certitude there is a corresponding growth of superficial "doubt." This doubt is by no means opposed to genuine faith, but it mercilessly examines and questions the spurious "faith" of everyday life, the human faith which is nothing but the passive acceptance of conventional opinion.

Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change.

Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.

Life's most precious gift is uncertainty.

The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.

Uncertainty helps keep actors on edge.

One thing you can rely on is that there will always be uncertainty.

As an actor, your life is filled with so much uncertainty.

It is in the realm of uncertainty, that your passion is found.

Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.

You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

The goal of leadership is not to eradicate uncertainty but rather to navigate it.

I believe faith is not certainty but the courage to live with uncertainty.

Meditation is about learning how to rest in uncertainty.

We need to be humble in the face of uncertainty

Don't imagine that you'll discover {the truth} by accumulating more knowledge. Knowledge creates doubt, and doubt makes you ravenous for more knowledge. You can't get full eating this way.

I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.

Major organizational changes create uncertainty.

Uncertainty hurts business. It annoys individuals. Why keep the whole country, including business and individuals, in uncertainty over the extent of the tax burdens to be placed upon us? How many of those who voted for Calvin Coolidge imagined for a moment that would do nothing to bring about tax relief before 1926?.... But if the Administration persists in opposing a special session then it will inevitably be 1926 before action is taken.... Coolidge and Congress should ease our minds and grease our activities by reforming and reducing taxation as soon as feasible after March 4.

Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.

There's no doubt about it that Mubarak has been indeed a partner with Israel, but there's also no doubt about something else. Conditions in Egypt were getting worse and worse, and it was almost just a matter of time before the popular uprising started.

He breathed out the bitter air that makes women doubt everything, and I breathed it in, as I had always done. I expelled my dust, the powder of everything I had destroyed with doubt, and he pulled it into his lungs.

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.

The uncertainty of events disturbs the purest enjoyments.

Enthusiasm for the universe, in knowing as well as in creating, also answers the question of doubt and meaninglessness. Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge. And meaninglessness is no threat so long as enthusiasm for the universe and for man as its center is alive.

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Barbra Streisand is without a doubt one of the most honest people I have ever known. There is no doubt in my mind that she will not be doing any more concerts. Of course, she still will be making records and starring and directing in movies.

Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You will say to your partner: do you really love me? Are you sure you love me? You will ask this a dozen times and drive the person nuts. But you never ask: are you really mad at me? Are you sure you’re angry? When someone is angry, you don’t doubt it for a moment. Yet the reverse should be true. We should doubt the negative in life, and have faith in the positive.

My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty.

We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty.