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Uncertainty

Quotations from the Wayside

The vast ambiguity of our life is at once its deepest truth.
KARL BARTH

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

To moral questions there are no universal answers.
LAURA FERMI

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

To live with courage, wisdom, and humility, we must accept uncertainty.
PETER PUTNAM

Life can never wait until all the evidence is in.
CHARLES E. SILBERMAN

He who would be free must dare to live with unanswered questions.
J. ROBERT SMUDSKI

It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.
JAMES THURBER

Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
THORNTON WILDER

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