Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

...in the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.

With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin…

...only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.

The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way!

[He] didn't know what to say. He didn't even know the name for what he was feeling. 'I think that I don't know you.' she looked at him, a little perplexed. 'No…

You don't understand everything, but you still make decisions. Well, we don't understand everything, either. But we decided didn't we? And we made the right ch…