Uncertainty Quotes

"I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, 'I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here.'"
-Oprah Winfrey

"Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality."
-Bertrand Russell

"When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others."
-Bertrand Russell

"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next."
-Ursula K. LeGuin

"There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will experience hardship and stress at some point."
-Dr. James C. Dobson

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

"Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions."
-Edward Coke

"The very essence of love is uncertainty."
-Oscar Wilde

"Knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things beautiful."
-Oscar Wilde

"For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief."
-Sallust

"If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch. "
-George W. Bush

"The uncertainty gives them ammunition. How many executions they will actually succeed in delaying is unknown."
-Kent Scheidegger

"The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without."
-Eric Hoffer

"I think the market is scared by uncertainty and that's what this election is giving us. And the most uncertain sector fundamentally is technology."
-Brian Belski

"The really big overhead issue is the merger. There's just a tremendous amount of uncertainty around that. It's hard to get people excited about, or confident about, the stock given the uncertainty around the merger. If it goes through, there's uncertainty around pulling off integration. If it doesn't go through, the leadership of HP is in question."
-Toni Sacconaghi

"Given the uncertainty of the business climate, clients have reduced their headcount. However, the work still needs to get done. Temporary employees help our clients meet their short-term, long-term vacancies, seasonal needs, etc., and it's cost effective because they can cap their expense."
-Ken Ballard

"Fiscal policy is adding to uncertainty."
-Alan Bollard

"In the short term, there is uncertainty regarding share placements. Since August 31, fund-raising activities by various companies have raised about HK$22 billion from the market, so that is an overhang."
-Louis Wong

"While a new CEO is a positive for the stock, much uncertainty still remains with regards to the fundamentals of the business and the timing of a turnaround."
-John Ivankoe

"A minority government may increase uncertainty and create some short-term volatility in the currency."
-Besa Deda

"Given this timing and uncertainty of the outcome of the appeals process, we are reluctant to respond to requests we have for breakup valuation. But using just a 'back of the envelope' valuation, based on current revenue multiples for comparables to each business unit, we would assign a 15x revenue multiple to the Windows business unit and a 17x revenue multiple to the applications business."
-Chris Shilakes

"There is a great deal of ambiguity and uncertainty in what they did, and I would not predict how the courts will decide this."
-Scott Silliman

"If the man is good, we in Africa can keep him. He's solving our problems. Why trouble ourselves with uncertainty? Why must we discuss longevity as an issue on its own? Maybe this is African-style democracy."
-Robert Kabushenga

"These days you'll find one bull for every bear. The market is just wrought with uncertainty."
-Marty Cunningham

"It's all anyone is talking about, ... There's a great sense of loss and uncertainty that comes as a result of something like this."
-Ole Miss

"Despite the strong revenue growth and market momentum we have achieved over the last seven quarters, general market conditions and economic uncertainty adversely impacted our second quarter financial performance."
-Greg Owens

"What I've told the guys is that there's some uncertainty here -- about the program, about the coach, about a lot of things. They don't know how everything is going to turn out, so it only makes sense for them to explore their options a little bit."
-Chris Kennedy

"What they've done is thoughtful, analytically sound and numerically cautious ... but they haven't put in the huge caveat about the range of uncertainty, ... It's so large that we can't know if the problem is twice as great or a quarter as great as what they're saying."
-Richard Kogan