uncertainty quotes

Any performance is discussable from the standpoint of what it attains or what it misses.Comprehensiveness can be discussed as superficiality, intensiveness as stricture, tolerance as uncertaintyöand the poor pedestrian abilities of a fish are clearly explainable in terms of his excellence as a swimmer. A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.

-Burke, Kenneth
  Permanence and Change.

Gesetzt, wir wollenWahrheit: warum nicht lieber Unwahrheit? Und Ungewissheit? Selbst Unwissenheit? Granted we want truth: why not rather untruth? And uncertainty? Even ignorance?

-Nietzsche, FriedrichWilhelm
  Jenseits von Gut und Bo«  se (Beyond Good and Evil), section1 (translated by R  J Hollingdale).

Whatever may be the distribution of uncertainty among economists, the public only gets to hear from those who have certain opinions.

-Stein, Herbert
  Washington Bedtime Stories.

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