#certainty

The three most important words in investing are: 'I don't know.'

From The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Risk is what’s left over when you think you’ve thought of everything.

From The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel

It’s okay to not have it all figured out.

From Own Your Everyday by Jordan Lee Dooley

It is the uncertainty of life that makes it worth living.

From Foundation by Isaac Asimov

A startup is a human institution designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

From The Lean Startup by Eric Ries

The value of AI lies in its ability to reduce uncertainty.

From Prediction Machines by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb

Certainty is the enemy of true discovery.

From The Religious Case Against Belief by James P. Carse

Innovation requires a willingness to embrace risk and uncertainty.

From The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen

To understand mushrooms, one must embrace the chaos and uncertainty of the wild.

From The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America by Langdon Cook

In the face of uncertainty, one must embrace the Dao.

From The Dao of Capital by Mark Spitznagel

The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of events.

From Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Information is the resolution of uncertainty.

From The Information by James Gleick

In a world of uncertainty, the best strategy is adaptability.

From Power and Prediction by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb

In a world of uncertainty, one must embrace the chaos.

From The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen

Embrace uncertainty as a catalyst for growth.

From The Dream of Reason by Anthony Gottlieb

We often underestimate the power of randomness.

From You Look Like a Thing and I Love You by Janelle Shane

Mystery is more important than certainty.

From The Religious Case Against Belief by James P. Carse

Embrace the chaos and uncertainty; that’s where the magic happens.

From Professional Troublemaker by Luvvie Ajayi Jones

The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history.

From The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The past is not a guide to the future.

From Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In a world of uncertainty, it is better to be a skeptic.

From The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The task of philosophy is to help us become more comfortable with uncertainty.

From The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton

The inability to predict the unpredictable is the essence of the problem.

From The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The problems of philosophy are not susceptible of exact solution.

From The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

One must learn to embrace uncertainty to thrive in speculation.

From The Psychology of Speculation by Victor Niederhoffer

Information is a measure of the uncertainty of a system.

From The Annotated Turing by Charles Petzold

Decisions are made in the context of uncertainty, and analyzing uncertainty is a key element of intelligence work.

From The Psychology of Intelligence Analysis by Richards J. Heuer Jr.

Fundamentalism seeks certainty, but it ultimately leads to isolation and conflict.

From The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong

Embracing uncertainty can open up new avenues for insight and innovation.

From The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef

What we think we know is often wrong.

From The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Embrace uncertainty; that's where the real growth happens.

From The Third Door by Alex Banayan

I have no idea what I want to do with my life.

From Open by Andre Agassi

We should be wary of ideologies that promise certainty.

From The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper

In the face of uncertainty, gathering evidence is crucial.

From Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann

A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

From The Lean Startup by Eric Ries

Embracing uncertainty can lead to new opportunities.

From The Great Mental Models Volume 1 by Shane Parrish

True faith requires the courage to live without certainty.

From The Religious Case Against Belief by James P. Carse

Mental models help you navigate uncertainty and complexity.

From Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann

Knowledge is not a matter of certainty, but a matter of probability.

From The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

The more we analyze, the more we realize our uncertainty.

From Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein

If you thought that science was certain—well, that is just an error on your part.

From The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard Feynman

The value of philosophy is, in fact, to be found in its uncertainty.

From The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

When faced with uncertainty, we often turn to the opinions of others.

From Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely

You have to be able to tolerate chaos and make decisions in the face of uncertainty.

From The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

You don’t have to have it all figured out to move forward.

From Own Your Everyday by Jordan Lee Dooley

The future is not predetermined.

From The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli

The future is uncertain, but it is not unmanageable.

From Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom

Speculation is the art of making decisions based on incomplete information.

From The Psychology of Speculation by Victor Niederhoffer

The uncertainty principle defines the limits of measurement.

From The Quantum World by Kenneth W. Ford

Black Swans are not just rare events; they can have massive consequences.

From The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In a world driven by uncertainty, the greatest advantage lies in understanding the limits of knowledge.

From The Dao of Capital by Mark Spitznagel

Embracing uncertainty is where the magic happens.

From Choose Wonder Over Worry by Amber Rae

We must embrace uncertainty instead of fearing it.

From Religion for Atheists by Alain de Botton

When we embrace uncertainty, we open ourselves to creativity.

From Choose Wonder Over Worry by Amber Rae

The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.

From The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean

Faith is not certainty, but a commitment to seek and explore.

From The Case for God by Karen Armstrong

The Black Swan is about the impact of highly improbable events.

From The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In order to innovate, you must embrace change and uncertainty.

From Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull

To be antifragile is to embrace uncertainty and thrive in it.

From Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and uncertainty.

From Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The lesson of history is that we may be right, but we cannot be certain.

From The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant

In a world of uncertainty, predictions provide a framework for action.

From Prediction Machines by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb

Experience teaches us that we can never be certain of the future.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Flexibility in thinking allows individuals to navigate uncertainty and complexity.

From Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein

Religious certainty stifles the human spirit.

From The Religious Case Against Belief by James P. Carse

The greatest challenge to philosophy is that it cannot prove its conclusions with certainty.

From The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

The vision was clear, but the path was not.

From The Infinite Machine by Camila Russo

You should be much more worried about your inability to predict the future than about your inability to predict the past.

From Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Traders must develop a mindset that embraces uncertainty.

From The Psychology of Trading by Brett N. Steenbarger