„There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.“
Reported as attributed to Burns but unverified in Suzy Platt (ed.), Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations Requested from the Congressional Research Service (Washington, DC : Library of Congress 1989) http://www.bartleby.com/73/172.html
Disputed
Quelle: Collected Poems of Robert Burns
Robert Burns1
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— Ikujiro Nonaka Japanese business theorist 1935
Ikujiro Nonaka (1991), "The Knowledge-Creating Company", Harvard Business Review 69 (6 Nov-Dec): 96–104
„The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.“
— Yoshida Kenkō japanese writer 1283 - 1350
Essays in Idleness (1967 Columbia University Press, Trns: Donald Keene)
Kontext: If man were never to fade away like the dews of Adashino never to vanish like the smoke over Toribeyama, but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us! The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty. Consider living creatures- none lives so long a man. The May fly waits not for the evening, the summer cicada knows neither spring nor autumn. What a wonderfully unhurried feeling it is to live even even a single year in perfect serenity.
„I have known that thing the Greeks knew not – uncertainty.“
— Jorge Luis Borges Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature 1899 - 1986
"The Lottery in Babylon"; tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
The Garden of Forking Paths (1942)
Variante: I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
„Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.“
— William Congreve, Love for Love
Act IV, scene xx
Love for Love (1695)
„Uncertainty is a personal matter; it is not the uncertainty but your uncertainty.“
— Dennis Lindley British statistician 1923 - 2013
1. Introduction. p. 1.
Understanding Uncertainty (2006)
„Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.“
— Oscar Wilde, buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray
— Steph Davis American rock climber 1973
Learning to Fly: A Memoir of Hanging On and Letting Go (New York: Touchstone, 2015), pp. 83 https://books.google.it/books?id=IIDRCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA83-84.
— John Elkann Italian businessman 1976
"Unlikely heir who saved the family jewels" http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0693507a-4830-11e0-b323-00144feab49a.html#axzz1GZU7VVRA, Financial Times, 03-06-11
— Ursula K. Le Guin, Hainish Cycle
Quelle: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 5 “The Domestication of Hunch” (p. 70)
— Marilyn Ferguson American writer 1938 - 2008
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Four, People Changing
— Charles Perrow American sociologist 1925 - 2019
Quelle: 1970s, Organizational Analysis: A Sociological View, 1970, p. 75
„Crises feed uncertainty. And uncertainty affects behaviour, which feeds the crisis.“
— Olivier Blanchard French economist 1948
Economics focus: (Nearly) nothing to fear but fear itself (2009) https://www.economist.com/node/13021961/all-comments?page=1,
— Halford E. Luccock American Methodist minister 1885 - 1960
Keeping Life Out of Confusion (1938)
Kontext: We ought to recognize that uncertainty of mind is not all a bad thing. It is a sign that your mind is still alive, still sensitive. If you are not at all confused in this day you are dead mentally and spiritually.
There is of course the peace of the cemetery. If you want that you can have it. But you will pay for such complacent serenity with blind eyes which do not see the world's fear and agony; with deaf ears, into which the still sad music of humanity never comes; with deadened nerves and unsensitized conscience.
We will never be brought to confusion, even in such a baffling and muddled world as ours, if we have a faith in a God of love as the ultimate power in the universe. The words "God is love" have this deep meaning: that everything that is against love is ultimately doomed and damned.
— Leonard Mlodinow, buch The Drunkard's Walk
Quelle: The Drunkard's Walk, Chapter 7, Measurement And The Law Of Errors, p. 129
— Richard Feynman, buch The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
I might think about it a little bit, and if I can't figure it out then I go on to something else. But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose — which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me.
Quelle: No Ordinary Genius (1994), p. 239, from interview in "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" (1981): video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEwUwWh5Xs4&t=48m10s
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader and risk analyst 1960
Quelle: Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
„I'm not sure there's such thing a thing as a normal life.“
— Cassandra Clare, buch City of Ashes
Quelle: City of Ashes
„Uncertainty is the normal state.“
— Tom Stoppard, buch Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Quelle: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
„Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.“
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel Swiss philosopher and poet 1821 - 1881
Amiel's journal; the Journal intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel 1890 (p.368)
Journal Intime (1882), Journal entries
Quelle: https://archive.org/details/amielsjournaljou00amieiala
