Guides Quote by Joseph Butler Download Open image “But to us, probability is the very guide of life.” — Joseph Butler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Guides Life Probability Statistics
And while there is life there is always the chance that something might happen... — Antal Szerb Copy Share Image
“Stop living the life with possibilities and probabilities, live the life with certainties.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good:… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of. — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous. — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
No judge can stop us from praying for our country and I pray that on May 6, millions of Americans will join me in… — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
Closing his eyes, he sent up a prayer to anyone who was listening, asking please, for God's sake, stop sending him signals that they… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Happy (if mortals can be) is the man,Who, not by priest but Reason, rules his span:Reason, to its possessor a sure guide,Reason, a thorn… — Thomas Chatterton Copy Share Image
The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, your heart always guides… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
A lighthouse doesn't save the ships; it doesn't go out and rescue them, it's just this pillar that helps to guide people home, — Lea Michele Copy Share Image
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
When you are in hard labor, remember that the length of labor is usually proportional to the number of people around. Avoid the presence… — Michel Odent Copy Share Image
The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The region belonging to the pure intellect is straitened: the imagination labours to extend its territories, to give it room. She sweeps across the… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece. Such imperfections are your guides - valuable, objective, non-judgmental… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
