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Uncertainty: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Quis scit, an adjiciant hodiernæ crastina summæ Tempora di superi? Who knows whether the gods will add to-morrow to the present hour ?— HORACE — Carmina. IV. 7. 17.

Ludit in humanis divina potentia rebus, Et certam præsens vix habet hora fidem. Heaven makes sport of human affairs, and the present hour gives no sure promise of the next.— OVID — Epistolæ Ex Ponto. IV. 3. 49.

Omnia sunt hominum tenui pendentia filo : Et subito casu, quæ valuere, ruunt. All human things hang on a slender thread: the strongest fall with a sudden crash.— OVID — Epistolæ Ex Ponto. IV. 3. 35.

Dum in dubio est animus, paulo momento huc illuc impellitur. When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.— TERENCE — Andria. I. 5. 32.