Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.

I trust every single person around me and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won't have that person around me.

You know people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know all time is uncertain. I mean it was uncertain back in - in 2007 we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th 1987 you just didn't know it.

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

If you just watch a teenager you see a lot of uncertainty.

Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and uncertainty a world buffeted by large forces people neither understand nor control. But turn to the sports section and it's all different.

To the indefinite uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement a sort of intellectual hash which has neither taste nor character.

If we must not act save on a certainty we ought not to act on religion for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty sea voyages battles!

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Positive healthy loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is or they're avoiding commitment altogether.

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches copies of copies until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity doubt uncertainty not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material but because that is the way we humans really are.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain philosophy is dark astrology is dark and geometry is dark.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory even more are false and most are uncertain.

In these troubled uncertain times we don't need more command and control we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined permanently blocked as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.