For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall
with a sudden crash.
[Lat., Omnia sunt read more

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall
with a sudden crash.
[Lat., Omnia sunt hominum tenui pendentia filo:
Et subito casu, quae valuere, ruunt.]

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man that function
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My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man that function
Is smothered in surmise and nothing is
But what is not.

This
I ever held worse that all certitude,
To know not what the worst ahead might be.

This
I ever held worse that all certitude,
To know not what the worst ahead might be.

Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.