Johan Huizinga Quotes

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

One thing you can rely on is that there will always be uncertainty.

Change isn't always for the best.

One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does.

I cannot guarantee anything.

There are no certainties.

The future is unpredictable.

Nothing is fixed or foolproof; I have no delusion about that.

Certainty in politics is never a given.

Nobody knows what will happen in the future.

Companies don't like uncertainty; travelers don't like uncertainty.

No one likes uncertainty.

One thing I have realised is that there are no certainties. Anything can happen anytime.

Ambiguity is our permanent state, isn't it? We don't like it being so. Most of us crave order and routine, and yet yawning before us is our future, as frightening as it is thrilling.

Nothing is ever certain.

There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.

Uncertainty is the normal state.

The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you.

But it there's anything I've learned in the past few months, it's that the only thing that's certain in life is that nothing in life is certain.

There was no way to know that certainty would one day become a luxury, too.

The only certainty is uncertainty

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.