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Letter "U" » Uncertainty
"Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?
[Lat., Quis scit, an adjiciant hodiernae crastina summae
Tempora di superi?]"
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
About: Uncertainty
"All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall
with a sudden crash.
[Lat., Omnia sunt hominum tenui pendentia filo:
Et subito casu, quae valuere, ruunt.]"
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
About: Uncertainty
"My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man that function
Is smothered in surmise and nothing is
But what is not."
Author: William Shakespeare
About: Uncertainty
"This
I ever held worse that all certitude,
To know not what the worst ahead might be."
Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne
About: Uncertainty
"When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse
directs it to either side.
[Lat., Dum in dubio est animus, paulo momento huc illuc
impellitur.]"
Author: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
About: Uncertainty
"Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase."
Author: William Congreve
About: Uncertainty
"Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty."
Author: John Finley
About: Uncertainty
"Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity."
Author: R. I. Fitzhenry
About: Uncertainty
"Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty."
Author: Jacob Bronowski
About: Uncertainty
"An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties."
Author: Djuna Barnes
About: Uncertainty
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