Acceptance of Uncertainty Quotes

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

I've learnt that you tend most to make a div of yourself when you're trying to cover up the fact that you don't know what you're doing. And that simply saying 'I don't know what I'm doing' is a massive relief.

We have abandoned the claim to have a monopoly on the truth.

no expectations, no disappointments!

For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.

You can't work at a relationship; you can't control it. You have to be lucky and go through your life. If you are not lucky you have to be prepared for some degree of suffering. That's why most relationships are very difficult and have some degree of pain. People stay together because of inertia, they don't have the energy. Because they are frightened of being lonely, or they have children.

There are things in your life which you are in control of, and those you're not. You need to not care about those things which you're not in control of, and when you come to really understand that, you can go from being really upset about something to that lovely feeling of being a kid where everything is okay.

Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.

You want to know the secret of life? It is to breathe in and out. And the mystery of life? You never know when it is going to end.

When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, "I knew he was mortal." So we in all casualties of life should say "I knew my riches were uncertain, that my friend was but a man." Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected.

My belief is in the chaos of the world and that you have to find your peace within the chaos and that you still have to find some sort of mission.

Patience is being at peace with the process of life

He didn’t know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn’t care. He was very tired of thinking and thinking and still not knowing. He was also tired of being frightened, like a man who has entered a cave on a lark and now begins to suspect he is lost. Stop thinking about it, then. That’s the solution.

Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

To call out for the hand of the enemy is a rather extreme measure, yet a better one, I think, than to remain in continual fever over an accident that has no remedy. But since all the precautions that a man can take are full of uneasiness and uncertainty, it is better to prepare with fine assurance for the worst that can happen, and derive some consolation from the fact that we are not sure that it will happen.

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

My life has been a quest for knowledge and understanding, and I am nowhere near having achieved that. And it doesn't bother me in the least. I will die without having come up with the answers to many things in life.

Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly.

Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.

To me, a song like 'Demons' or the title 'Trouble Will Find Me' are acknowledgments that you can't really plan for life, and you can't plan for trouble.