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«Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.»
Author: Jacob Bronowski
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
edge, Edge of, the edge, uncertainty, unending
«The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law»
Author: Jeremy Bentham
(Activist, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
lawyer, The Law, uncertainties, uncertainty
«Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.»
«There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing»
«The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.»
Author: Ursula K. LeGuin
(Writer)
| About:
Uncertainty
| Keywords:
intolerable, permanent, uncertainties, uncertainty
«The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.»
Author: William Henry Harrison
(President)
| Keywords:
capital, capitalist, enact, enacted, enacting, prudent, repeal, repealed, repealing, There exists, uncertainty
«Lastly, the great uncertainty of all data in War is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, to a certain extent, be planned in a mere twilight, which in addition not infrequently - like the effect of a fog or moonshine - gives to things exagg»
Author: Karl von Clausewitz
| About:
Action,
Planning,
War
| Keywords:
addition, data, fog, infrequently, in addition, lastly, moonshine, planned, plan of action, to a great extent, twilight, uncertainty
«The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes»
Author: Salman Rushdie
(Writer)
| Keywords:
conservative, crimes, culture, notions, sacred, seeks, uncertainty
«The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next»
Author: Ursula K. LeGuin
(Writer)
| About:
Life,
Possibility
| Keywords:
intolerable, permanent, uncertainty
«The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.»
Author: Seneca
| Keywords:
certainty, chance upon, delay, depend upon, expectation, Great Expectations, let go, relinquish, relinquished, relinquishing, uncertainty
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