Top 1200 Uncertainty Principle Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Uncertainty's not good for anybody.

Nothing is certain by uncertainty.

A free society is regarded as one that does not engage, on principle, in attempting to control what people find meaningful, and a totalitarian society is regarded as one that does, on principle, attempt such control.

It's a skill to navigate uncertainty.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

If there be any one principle more widely than another confessed by every utterance, or more sternly than another imprinted on every atom of the visible creation, that principle is not liberty, but law.

I have no desire to prolong uncertainty.

Real danger is nothing more than just living. Of course, living is merely the chaos of existence, but more than that it's a crazy mixed-up business of dismantling existence instant by instant to the point where the original chaos is restored, and taking strength from the uncertainty and the fear that chaos brings to re-create existence instant by instant. You won't find another job as dangerous as that. There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.

You don't raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.

What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?

No one likes uncertainty.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

In medicine, uncertainty is the water we swim in.

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

Uncertainty is bad for business.

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

It is the job of leaders to eliminate uncertainty.

What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.

Soul-the spiritual principle, the creative spark of God-cannot work if you panic. Anxiety shuts down the creative centers. When you can't think, whatever you try to do becomes one blunder piled upon another. If you slow down, the spiritual principle can begin working through you so that you can figure out the solution to the problem that is bothering you.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.

What is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the militia whose bodies were used lately were not men of sense nor of principle; in a high moral sense they were not men at all.

America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more-and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything 'noble and just,' and heroic, and great, and unprecedented in human history-was the logical consequence of fidelity to that one principle.

I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any one essay. I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness. Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.

There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of inalienable individual rights and to substitute for it the principle of the government’s unlimited, arbitrary power, thus delivering oneself into gradual enslavement. As an example of this process, observe the present domestic policy of the United States.

The only certainty is uncertainty

Embrace the wisdom of uncertainty.

Because we aren't certain about the effects of GMOs, we must consider one of the guiding principles in science, the precautionary principle. Under this principle, if a policy or action could harm human health or the environment, we must not proceed until we know for sure what the impact will be. And it is up to those proposing the action or policy to prove that it is not harmful.

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

Information is the #resolution of uncertainty.

Uncertainty is the normal state.

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.

There is no such thing as zero uncertainty.

Uncertainty is killing this economy.

Millions don't rally to the banner of Uncertainty.

The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has in fact been followed throughout, the principle of one man one job, of minding one s own business , in the sense of doing the job for which one is naturally fitted and not interfering with other people.

Briefly, in the act of composition, as an instrument there intervenes and is most potent, fire, flaming, fervid, hot; but in the very substance of the compound there intervenes, as an ingredient, as it is commonly called, as a material principle and as a constituent of the whole compound the material and principle of fire, not fire itself. This I was the first to call phlogiston.

The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.

Creativity is an unending exercise in uncertainty.

Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.

It's only in uncertainty that we're naked and alive.

Uncertainty is the necessary companion of all explorers.

Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.

The word generalization in literature usually means covering too much territory too thinly to be persuasive, let alone convincing. In science, however, a generalization means a principle that has been found to hold true in every special case.... The principle of leverage is a scientific generalization.

The fundamental flaw in Social Security and Medicare is that they violate the 'welfare principle' in economics. The welfare principle forms the fundamental basis of all charitable work in churches and other private organizations: assist those who need help, and equally important, don't assist individuals who can take care of themselves.

Investors don't like uncertainty.

A little uncertainty is good for everyone.

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

We stand on no high moral plateau in our time. We are, in fact, plumbing depths of depravity unknown to our ancestors--and whatever may have been the evil in which they engaged, at least they were willing to acknowledge the principle by which their evil was condemned. We have even turned our back on the principle.

There's a lot of uncertainty that's not clear in my mind.

Tolerance for uncertainty is the prerequisite to succeeding.

Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty.

Information is the resolution of uncertainty.

Leadership is about uncertainty. Deal with it

To get salvation we must not only do some things, but everything which God has commanded...The object with me is to obey and teach others to obey God in just what he tells us to do. It mattereth not whether the principle is popular or unpopular; I will always maintain a true principle even if I stand alone in it.

... if variations useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being perserved in the struggle for life; and from the strong principle of inheritance they will tend to produce offsping similarly characterized. This principle of preservation, I have called, for the sake of brevity, Natural Selection.

We need to be humble in the face of uncertainty

We have to learn to live with uncertainty.

At heart, "uncertainty" and "investing" are synonyms.