Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure."
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Uncertain
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Jim Morrison
Musician, Poet
"The future is uncertain but the end is always near."
Pliny the Elder
Naturalist, Author
"In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry."
Banana Yoshimoto
Novelist
"But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there."
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"To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous."
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"It is not certain that everything is uncertain."
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"Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?"
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"There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness"
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"In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being unsure."
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"There are few truths in an uncertain world, but here's one; this aint Kentucky!"
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"We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not."
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"Life is unresolved, confusing, bewildering, puzzling, ambiguous. You don't really know what's going to happen. The future is uncertain for everybody."
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"I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty."
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"The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things."
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"Science is uncertain."
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"Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures."
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"I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was."
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"…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable."
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"Insight, untested and unsupported, is an uncertain guarantee of the truth."
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"Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires."
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"We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time."
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"In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses."
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"Maybe the science is uncertain, maybe we don't have to worry about it. Climate change is the worst, but there's others."
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"Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about a truth. Everyone therefore who doubts whether truth exists has in himself a truth on which not to doubt.... Hence one who can doubt at all ought not to doubt the existence of truth."
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