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Uncertainty Quotes

"Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction"
Dante Alighieri
"I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of."
Michel de Montaigne
"People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it."
Ray Bradbury
"Randomness is indistinguishable from complicated, undirected effort"
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"When you depart from standard probability, you completely lose track of its limits"
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"The paradox of technology is that it makes what we know obsolete, while creating brand new uncertainties"
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"The main point of financial opacity is that what is debatable remains hidden"
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Hope I make it out of here alive"
Billie Eilish
"Don't count your chickens before they are hatched"
Aesop
"It is evident that everything is in a continual flux, and it is as impossible to find any certain individual in the world as it is to take up any definite quantity of water in the ocean."
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
"Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry"
Democritus
"Reality is not always probable or likely."
Jorge Luis Borges
"I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks."
Jorge Luis Borges
"On the road from the City of Skepticism I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity"
Adam Smith
"Uncertainty keeps desire alive."
Esther Perel
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