Probability Quotes

305 quotes by 254 authors

Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You aren't your past, you are probability of your future. — Oprah Winfrey
The Three Theorems of Psychohistorical Quantitivity: The population under scrutiny is oblivious to the existence of the science of Psychohistory. The time periods dealt with… — Isaac Asimov
One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits. — Fay Weldon
The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love. — Jeanette Winterson
The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history… — Isaac Asimov
I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what… — Jeanette Winterson
Manners,[...] are severly underappreciated in my opinion". "Oh?" Where practiced well, they remove the probability that someone in my position will be forced to go… — Michelle Sagara
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities. — George Eliot
The road is a strange place. Shuffling along, I looked up and you were there walking across the grass toward my truck on an August… — Robert James Waller
Statement: A girl and a boy jump into a river. The boy swims over to the girl and says, "God, it's cold." Question: What's the… — Jenny Downham
It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels that fell. They were creatures of a more noble extract,… — Thomas Watson
There exists a world. In terms of probability this borders on the impossible. It would have been far more likely if, by chance, there was… — Jostein Gaarder
Some of my Arcanum bunkmates taught me a card game called dogs-breath. I returned the favor by giving an impromptu lesson in psychology, probability, and… — Patrick Rothfuss
All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit of… — David Hume
They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as… — William Faulkner
Why couldn't she have this, just enjoy this, without creating obstacles, digging up problems, worrying about mistakes, about tomorrow's? Why let the maybe's, the what… — Nora Roberts
In all probability the Human Genome Project will, someday, find that I carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my best efforts I… — Chuck Palahniuk
Embrace the probability of your imminent death....and know there is nothing i can do to save you. — Suzanne Collins

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